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Title: The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow ISBN: 0-86547-477-X Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great poetry, great translation, great text
Comment: Rilke ranks among the world's greatest poets. Each poem in the Book of Images is an elegant snapshot of a beautiful world. Snow's translation is superb, and he is commonly regarded as the preeminent English translator of Rilke's poetry. This text contains the translation and the original German side-by-side so that readers can gain a better appreciation of Rilke. The Snow translatio of the Book of Images is one of the greatest English-language poetic achievements.
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb translation of 'Das Buch der Bilder'!
Comment: Rilke is that poet that you, if you are tormented by memories of high-school poetry lessons past (dactylic metre sound vaguely familiar?), ought try. His imagery is accessible, his meaning clear...and he manages simultaneously a beautiful degree of both spiritual and metaphorical richness.
Snow's translations of Rilke's poetry are superb; he consistently preserves the metric structure and is also conscious of the need to employ every word and consider every nuance of meaning, rather than simply settling for glossing it (a surprisingly common problem in poetry translation). In the challenging world of finding faithful poetry translation, Snow's work is outstanding...and the original material to my sense of literary aesthetics unsurpassed...little of Rilke's beauty is sacrificed in the execution of this translation. Rilke's simultaneous spareness, sensitivity, and richness endure here; rather than imposing himself upon the reader, Snow succeeds admirably at the translator's task, and brings Rilke to the English-speaking audience.
Rating: 5
Summary: Direct prose that is needed in this vague world
Comment: Rilke's poems are simple, describing everything for the reader. He never overpowers with metaphors and deeper meanings.
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Title: Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow ISBN: 086547513X Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton, Franz Xaver Kappus ISBN: 0393310396 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood ISBN: 0393310981 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, Ranier Maria Rilke ISBN: 0679601619 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A. Snow ISBN: 0865476128 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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