Sonnets to Orpheus
Subtitle: with Letters to a Young Poet
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780415940771
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry texts & anthologies; German Poetry; Poetry; German; Literary Criticism; General; Poetry / General
First sentence: 'I find an infinite grace in the fact', wrote Rilke to his Polish translator Witold Hulewicz, 'that I was permitted to fill both these sails with the same breath: the small rust-coloured sail of the Sonnets as well as the huge white canvas of the Elegies.'