rilke translation

A beautiful bilingual gift book of poems: selections from Rilke’s legendary masterpiece, The Book of Hours, with a new introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Rilke’s Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903).  Although these poems were the work of Rilke’s youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, they celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe, but seems to be rather humanity itself, and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist. This exquisite gift edition contains Babette Deutsch’s classic translations, which capture the rich harmony and suggestive imagery of the originals, allowing interpretations both religious and philosophical, and transporting the reader to new heights of inspiration and musicality.

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These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke’s deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke’s particular artistic and poetic power.
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany’s most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre’s translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.

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German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity.  His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century.  Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke’s imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text.  In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke’s words.  Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice  that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel.  These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.

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Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart.

These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke’s work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s central importance to the history of literature in the 20th century is based on the power and memorability of his lyrics, and on his successful struggle to articulate a new form of human consciousness and a new vision of the human relation to the rest of creation. Franz Wright’s brilliant translations of some of Rilke’s neglected poems are now well-known and widely admired. They are here enhanced by an additional selection and by a new introduction, by the translator, that traces Rilke’s progress toward ultimate mastery and breadth of vision.

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