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The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) [1] are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year.
Among English-language readers, his best-known works include two poetry collections: Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), a semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters published posthumously Letters ...
Being Here is Glorious: On Rilke, Poetry, and Philosophy with a New Translation of the Duino Elegies. Translated by Reid, James D. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780199569410. OCLC 961807367. "Duino Elegies (1912–1922)". The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus & Others. Translated ...
In turn, Gertrud sent an account of Wera's death at age 19 that moved Rilke to compose the Sonnets to Orpheus and complete the Duino Elegies. [24] Rilke wrote that Wera's image dominates and moves the Sonnets. They frequently refer to her, directly addressing her by name and indirectly through allusions to a dancer or the mythical Eurydice. [25]
Alfred A. Poulin, Jr. or A. Poulin (1938–1996) was an American poet, translator, and editor noted for his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. Poulin studied at St. Francis College in Maine, Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, and at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Simon & Schuster, 1985, ISBN 0-671-55708-4; The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Graywolf Press, 1985, ISBN 0-910457-02-6; Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Random House, 1984, ISBN 0-394-74104-8