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Sonnets to Orpheus
Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Norton, M. D. Herter (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0393328856     ISBN-13: 9780393328851
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $18.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2006
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Annotation: One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.
To Rilke himself the "Sonnets to Orpheus" were "perhaps the most mysterious...in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German.
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - General
Dewey: 831.912
LCCN: 42017662
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.36" W x 8" L (0.40 lbs) 162 pages
Features: Bilingual, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed. With facing-page German.

Contributor Bio(s): Norton, M. D. Herter: - M. D. Herter Norton is a publisher and translator. Together with her husband William Warder Norton, she founded the publishing company W. W. Norton & Company. Her work as translator includes the translation of works by Rainer Maria Rilke.Rilke, Rainer Maria: - RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and The Book of Hours.
 
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