Sonnets To Orpheus Paperback by Rainer Maria Rilke

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2006-03-28)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 160 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393328851
• Item Weight: 181.44 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.38 x 0.44 cm

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German.

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.

M.D.H. Norton (1894–1985) was cofounder of W. W. Norton & Company, now the oldest and largest publisher owned wholly by its employees.