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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By Rainer Maria Rilke & M. D. Herter Norton
Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke & M. D. Herter Norton digital book - Fable

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Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart.

These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.

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“The first time poetry actually resonated with me.”
“…Upon what instrument are we two spanned? And what player has us in his hand? O sweet song.”

About Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

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