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The Selected Poetry (Picador Classics)
The Selected Poetry (Picador Classics)

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Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Creator: S. Mitchell
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book

Buy Used: £10.19





Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 reviews
Sales Rank: 283237

Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6

ISBN: 0330301225
EAN: 9780330301220
ASIN: 0330301225

Publication Date: November 20, 1987
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Delivered from the UK in 5-7 days. 1982. Picador. Paperback VG.

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I go back to this year on year   October 12, 2008
One day I will try another translation of Rilke and then I will find out just how much of what I love about this book is Rilke and how much is Mitchell's translation. It's not a complete collection but what is there is dense and comprehensive. I have enough German to be able to read the facing original texts, to scan for rhythm and metre, and to some extent the translation. It looks to me that where there is a choice, rhythm takes precedence over words. But the words chosen instead are gorgeous. The whole effect has the luminousity of the best of Ginsberg. Whether that's faithful to the original spirit I could not say. All I can really say is that if someone had written these poems in this English then they would be acknowledged masterpieces of mystical poetry.


5 out of 5 stars beautiful excuses..   January 8, 2003
 6 out of 8 found this review helpful

Here are some of the most beautiful poems that have been written, in the best translations I have yet found..but beware- Rilke's poetry was his excuse to treat women horrifically..read his letters...an absolute git...


5 out of 5 stars Wonderful poet - great translation   October 7, 1999
 13 out of 14 found this review helpful

OK so you won't find all of Rilke's poems here. Mitchell reckons that some are just cannot be translated. It's still the best though. Mitchell's translation of the Elegies is unlikely to be bettered.



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