Selected Poems of Rilke, Bilingual Edition [Paperback]

These poems, selected fromDas Buch der Bilderand the two parts ofNeue Gedichte,show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power.

Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarm?, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.

C.F. MacIntyre(d.1967) was well known as a translator. In addition to works by Rilke, he translated Goethe'sFaustand many of the French symbolists: Nerval, Baudelaire,Verlaine, Corbi?re, Mallarm?, Rimbaud, Laforgue, and Val?ry. His volumes of original poems includeThe Black Bull, Caf?s and Cathedrals,andPoems.