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Dance the Orange

Selected Poems

Dance the Orange( )
Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
Editor: Robinson, Jeremy Maria
Translator: Hamburger, Michael
Series title:European Writers Ser.
ISBN:978-1-86171-118-2
Publication Date:Mar 2008
Publisher:Crescent Moon Publishing
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.00
Book Description:

This new collection includes poems taken from the time of the great German poet's New Poems through the Duino Elegies to the last pieces. These are some of Rainer Maria Rilke's best works; they are intense, compact, lyrical and lucid, by turns erotic, heartfelt and mystical. Hamburger's excellent translations have the German original facing each poem.

Book Details
Pages:106
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / European / German
Author Biography
Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author)
More than any other modern German writer, Rainer Maria Rilke seems to match our romantic idea of what a poet should be, though, as with many writers, separating artistry from affectation is often difficult.

Restless, sensitive, reverent, yet egotistical, Rilke often seems to hover in his poems like a sort of ethereal being. He was born in 1875 to a wealthy family in Prague. After a few years devoted to the study of art and literature, he spent most of his adult life wandering among the European capitals and devoting himself single-mindedly to poetry. His early poems reflect his interest in the visual and plastic arts, as he tries to lose himself in contemplation of objects such as an antique torso of Apollo.His later books of poetry, such as Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923), on the contrary, focus intently on internal realms. The poetry of Rilke is noted, above all, for metaphysical and psychological nuances.

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