Rainer Maria Rilke

M. D. Herter Norton

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.

Sonnets to Orpheus

Selections from such works by the German lyric poet as Advent, New Poems, and The Book of Pictures are presented in the original German as well as in English translation

M. D. Herter Norton

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