The Essential Rilke

Name: The Essential Rilke
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by Rainer Rilke, Galway Kinnell, and Hannah Liebmann

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The Essential Rilke

by Rainer Rilke, Galway Kinnell, and Hannah Liebmann

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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ISBN10 0060956542
ISBN13 9780060956547
Publish Date 5 September 2000
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperCollins

Edition Rev ed.
Format Paperback
Pages 176
Language English

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celinenyx

Written on Oct 11, 2014

The Essential Rilke is a lovely edition that has the German and English translation side by side. This really helped me to get at least a basic understanding of the poems, since when the English was particularly dense, I could also check out the sentence in German. Rilke is a very visual poet, using vivid images or adapting well-known myths. I can't say I understood even a third of all that he was doing, but I really enjoyed many of his poems.