Orpheus
Subtitle: a version of Rilke's Die Sonette an Orpheus
By: [translated by] Don Paterson.
Contributors: Paterson, Don, 1963-
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780571222681
Subjects: Rilke, Rainer Maria, -- 1875-1926 -- Translations into English.; Orpheus (Greek mythology) -- Poetry.; Sonnets, German -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.; Poetry.
Work titles: Sonette an Orpheus.
Description: Rainer Maria Rilke's '55 Sonnets to Orpheus' remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poems continue to testify to. Don Paterson's rendition offers a radiant and at time distressing version of the great work.
Notes: Translated from the German.