Quote of the Day
Carcanet has always been the place to look for considerations of purely literary and intellectual merit. Its list relies on the vision and the faith and the energy of people who care about books, and values. It is thus as rare as it is invaluable.
Frederic Raphael
|
|
Book Search
Subscribe to our mailing list
|
|
Turning-pointMiscellaneous Poems 1912-1926Rainer Maria RilkeTranslated by Michael Hamburger10% off
Series: Poetica
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. May 2003) 9780856463532 £8.95 £8.05
Narcissus Narcissus perished. From his beauty rose Whatever left him he loved back again, April 1913
Ignorant I confront the heaven of my life, Spring 1913 [Draft of a poem originally intended for the Duino Elegies] While Rilke has been perhaps more widely translated into English than any other modern poet, the emphasis has always been on ‘major works’ – the New Poems volumes, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Yet Rilke produced many more poems which had little or no airing beyond the confines of his workshop. Michael Hamburger argues in his perceptive and entertaining introduction that these poems are not inferior to the poems in the collections that form the accepted corpus; rather that they merely failed to fit in with Rilke’s wish to form a definitive statement.
Praise for Rainer Maria Rilke
'Cohn has added a natural eloquence of his own which makes his version of the Elegies the most flowing and organic of those I have read.' - Peter Porter
'The reader with no German can enjoy this volume from beginning to end.' - Stephen Spender
'Rilke has never "moved" so naturally into another language as he seems to do in Stephen Cohn's renderings of these poems.' - John Bayley
'Cohn has added a natural eloquence of his own which makes his version of the Elegies the most flowing and organic of those I have read.' - Peter Porter
'Rilke has never "moved" so naturally into another language as he seems to do in Stephen Cohn's renderings of these poems.' - John Bayley
'The reader with no German can enjoy this volume from beginning to end.' - Stephen Spender
Praise for Michael Hamburger
'O'Driscoll manages to get the reader as close to Hamburger as possible in one book. It feels very much like spending a week at your grandfather's house - getting to listen to all his stories, roaming through cupboards, reading the works hidden inside.'
Dominik Szczepaniak, DURA |
Share this...
Quick Links
Carcanet Poetry
Carcanet Classics
Carcanet Fiction
Carcanet Film
Lives and Letters
PN Review
Video
Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years!
The Carcanet Blog
Not a Moment Too Soon: Frank Kuppner
read more
Coco Island: Christine Roseeta Walker
read more
that which appears: Thomas A Clark
read more
Come Here to This Gate: Rory Waterman
read more
Near-Life Experience: Rowland Bagnall
read more
The Silence: Gillian Clarke
read more
|
We thank the Arts Council England for their support and assistance in this interactive Project.
|
|
This website ©2000-2024 Carcanet Press Ltd
|