Product Description

Translated by Edward Snow Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him in a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that he published in two volumes under the title Neue Gedichte: "New Poems."

As translator Edward Snow writes, these books "together constitute one of the great instances of the lyric quest for objective experience."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1544399 in Books
• Published on: 1990-01
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
"Edward Snow's New Poems... ranks on all counts with the very best translations of our time." -- Albert Cook, Brown University

"Edward Snow... has produced a New Poems that is clear, accurate, and fluent. Thanks to his translations, English-speaking readers will at last be able to know the entirety of these poems, Rilke's first great work." -- Stephen Mitchell, translator of Rilke's Selected Poems

"The facing pages of Rilke's German and Edward Snow's English seem to have been touched by what Rilke calls the 'bogenstrich,' the 'bow's stroke/that from two strings draws one voice.'" -- Allen Mandelbaum

Language Notes
Text: English, German

About the Author
Edward Snow is the author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Bruegel and has translated several volumes of Rilke's poems. He is a professor at Rice University.