New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865476128 ISBN 13: 9780865476127

Publisher: North Point Press, 2001

Synopsis

Originally published in two volumes in 1907 and 1908, this collection of poetry, now available in a superlative new translation, by the acclaimed poet includes such works as "The Panther" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo."

About this title

About the Authors

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rainer Maria Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. He is the author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Bruegel.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865476128
• ISBN 13: 9780865476127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 10