Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition (Vintage International)

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell s versions of Rilke s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke s text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, Mitchell s work has authority and power as poetry in its own right.