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Stephen Mitchell offers what are perhaps the most masterful and intimate translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry to date, infusing it with all the power, eloquence, rhythm and lightness of its original voice. Includes the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus.

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are theSonnets to Orpheusand theDuino Elegies; his two most famous prose works areLetters to a Young Poetand the semiautobiographicalThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.