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Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours - A New Translation with Commentary (Paperback)
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Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours - A New Translation with Commentary (Paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously
lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and
commentary. Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important
modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and
Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his
earlier verse is less known. The Bookof Hours, written in three
bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work,
covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siecle
epigone to distinctive modern voice. The poems document Rilke'stour
of Russia with Lou Andreas-Salome, his hasty marriage and fathering
of a child in Worpswede, and his turn toward the urban modernity of
Paris. He assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the
Romantics' journey into the self, speaking to God as part
transcendent deity, part needy neighbor. The poems can be read
simply for their luminous lyricism, captured in Susan Ranson's
superb new translation, which reproduces the music of the original
German with impressive fluidity. An in-depth introduction explains
the context of the work and elucidates its major themes, while the
poem-by-poem commentary is helpful to the student and the general
reader. A translator's note treating the technical problems of
rhythm, meter, and rhyme that the translator of Rilke faces
completes the volume. Susan Ranson is the co-translator, with
Marielle Sutherland, of Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems (Oxford
World's Classics, 2011). Ben Hutchinson is Reader in Modern German
at the University of Kent, UK.
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