Description: Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Nancy Billias For ten years, Rilke struggled to create the Duino Elegies: a cycle of ten unrhymed, free-form poems. By contrast, the fifty-five Orphic sonnets presented here were composed in just three weeks, in and as the wake of the final elegy. In this, the first sonnet-form translation to appear in print since 1960, the translator has sought to retain the musicality of the poems, to hew as closely as possible to the rigid and constricting rhythm and rhyme schemes through which Rilke proclaims the task of the poet: to listen to being in a most unique way, and to undertake the mystical work of inhabiting and praising the wonder of being as it saturates and transcends the here and now. The eternal questions of time, death, God and meaning are answered as they always must be: by an appeal to the ideals of beauty and love. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1951105087 Author Nancy Billias Pages 162 Publisher Dream Abbey LLC Year 2023 Translator Nancy Billias ISBN-13 9781951105082 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-08-01 Imprint Dream Abbey LLC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159437491;
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