Medias
Sonnets to Orpheus
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Rainer Maria Rilke’s fifty-fiveSonnets to Orpheus were written over a few days in an astonishing burst of inspiration. Described by Rilke himself as “a spontaneous inner dictation,” the sequence is among the most famous works of modernist literature, and Christiane Marks’s fresh new translations succeed in evoking Rilke’s music—often sacrificed in translation—opening a new window on these poems, for old and new Rilke lovers alike. The result of nearly two decades of memorizat
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Technical specifications
Release date | December 20th 2019 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Open Letter Books |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |