Uncollected Poems - Brossura

Rilke, Rainer Maria; Snow, Edward A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 086547513X ISBN 13: 9780865475137

Casa editrice: North Point Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Between the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry--the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he was writing verse continually, often prolifically--in letters, in guest books, in presentation copies, and chiefly in the pocket-books he always carried with him. This body of uncollected work exceeds five hundred pieces: finished poems of great poise and brilliance, headlong statements that hurtle through their subjects, haunting "fragments," and short bursts that arc into the unpursuable. A remarkable number of them are among Rilke's finest poems.

Snow's selection of more than a hundred of these little-known works distills the best of the uncollected poetry while offering a wide enough choice to convey Rilke's variety and industry during the years he wrote them. Uncollected Poems will lead students, scholars, and other readers to a fresh--and more accurate--understanding of this great poet's life and work.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Edward Snow has received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his many renderings of Rilke. The author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Breughel, he teaches at Rice University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: North Point Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 086547513X
• ISBN 13: 9780865475137
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 290
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile