European

Sonnets to Orpheus

Name: Sonnets to Orpheus
Brand: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
SKU: 9780865477216
Price: 986.00 INR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780865477216

GER-SONNETS TO ORPHEUS BILINGU

Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria Author , Snow, Edward A. Author Format: Paperback

Paperback · ISBN 9780865477216

₹986 15%

₹1,160

Inclusive of GST and other taxes

100% Quality Assurance

No Account Creation Required

Fast Delivery

Secured Transactions

Arriving at your doorstep in 10-15 days

Our logisitcs team will make sure everyitem is delivered safely

Key Specifications

ISBN	9780865477216
Subtitle	GER-SONNETS TO ORPHEUS BILINGU
Publisher	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Publication date	May 2005
Language	English
MRP	£8.99 GBP
Page count	144
Item weight	42 g

Breathing, you invisible poem!
World-space in pure continuous interchange
with my own being. Equipose
in which I rhythmically transpire.

Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions death not only as one among many of life's transformations but also as an ideally receptive state of being. Because Orpheus has visited the realm of death and returned to the living, his lyre, a unifying presence in these poems, is an emblem of fluidity and musical transcendence. And Eurydice, condemned to Hades as a result of Orpheus's backward glance, becomes in Rilke's universe a mythical figure of consolation and hope.

Edward Snow, in his translations of New Poems, The Book of Images, Uncollected Poems, and Duino Elegies, has emerged as Rilke's most able English-language interpreter. Adhering faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English, Snow's Sonnets to Orpheus should serve as the authoritative translation for years to come.

Sonnets to Orpheus

Key Specifications

Rilke, Rainer Maria Author

Snow, Edward A. Author

Related titles