Ahead of All Parting by Rainer Maria Rilke (ISBN:0679601619)

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		Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library)
	
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			Rainer Maria Rilke		
	
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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Far and away the best translation of Rilke I've read in English.  A very comprehensive set of selections also.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I recommend reading anything translated or edited by Stephen Mitchell. He's amazing.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
My favorite poet.  He understands the subtle undercurrents of exsisting and portrays it perfectly through his words.
Rilke made poetry make sense to me.

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
How shall I hold on to my soul, so thatit does not touch yours? How shall I liftit gently up over you on to other things?

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
I love this edition.  It has the original German text with English translations on the facing page.  Rilke speaks to me like no other can

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							A Reader
						
							few weeks ago						
A good selection EXCEPT there's very little of his middle period (The Book of Images, New Poems 1907, and New Poems 1908) which I consider his best work. Happily there are the great Edward Snow translations of these 3 books in their entirety, so with all 4 books you would have a collection of almost everything you would need to experience what I consider the greatest poet since Shakespeare....more
 A good selection EXCEPT there's very little of his middle period (The Book of Images, New Poems 1907, and New Poems 1908) which I consider his best work. Happily there are the great Edward Snow translations of these 3 books in their entirety, so with all 4 books you would have a collection of almost everything you would need to experience what I consider the greatest poet since Shakespeare. Mitchell's selection includes the entire Sonnets To Orpheus as well as some previously unpublished work.   hide

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