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Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell - translator
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
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 The poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke addresses the issues of God, death, and "destructive time." Rilke tries to transform these problems into an inner world, what he calls "a whole inner world as if an angel, comprehending all space, were blind and looking into himself." Eminent author and translator Stephen Mitchell brings these ideas vividly to life in this new translation of Rilke's most transcendent works.Recording (P)1997 by Audio Literature; Copyright ©1995 by Stephen Mitchell Classics European Poetry World Literature

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"Rilke has at last found, in Mitchell's version, the ideal English poetics and the perfect translator." (William Arrowsmith, co-author of The Craft and Context of Translation)
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