num_pages: 213
description: A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.Rainer Maria Rilke’s best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of “form-true” rendering that earned him the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, poet-translator Walter Arndt boldly claims to reproduce in English for the first time the prosodic identity of Rilke’s finest rhymed poems.
language: English
title: The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary and Compact Biography
titlecomplete: The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary and Compact Biography
genres: Classics, Poetry
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Dartmouth College Press