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The Best of Rilke : 72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography
Overview
Rainer Maria Rilke's best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of "form-true" rendering that earned him the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, poet-translator Walter Arndt boldly claims to reproduce in English for the first time the prosodic identity of Rilke's finest rhymed poems.
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- ISBN-13: 9780874514612
- ISBN-10: 0874514614
- Publisher: University Press of New England
- Publish Date: February 1991
- Dimensions: 9.03 x 5.5 x 0.64 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 213
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