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Sonnets to Orpheus

Sonnets to Orpheus

By Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by M.D. Herter Norton 

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German.

Paperback
162 pages
Text in English and German 
W.W. Norton, 2006
Originally Published in 1923
5.3 x 0.4 x 7.7 inches

ISBN 9780393328851
Poetry

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