Title: Orpheus
Subtitle: a version of Rilke's Die 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.
Subjects: Translations into English, German Sonnets, Poetry, Orpheus (Greek mythology)
People: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)