Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

ix, 205 pp. Translated into English from the original German by A. Poulin, Jr. These two works, long considered Rilke's greatest achievements, are offered together in a single volume. Poulin's translations are the first to take the works' interdependence fully into consideration... His versions remain faithful to the spirit and letter of Rilke's German, but they speak in a full-fledged contemporary American idiom. The translation is accompanied by the German original on the facing page, and by explanatory notes.