Poems from the Book of Hours
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811226689 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Winner of many prizes including a National Book Award, she is perhaps best known for her six Books of Earthsea which have sold millions of copies and been translated into sixteen languages. . Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His collected work is comprised of hundreds of other poems, essays, plays, and stories.Babette Deutsch (1859–1982) was a poet, critic, and novelist, as well as a translator.Ursula K. Le Guin
He quickened the German language itself.” (Rika Lesser - The Nation)“If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.” (Stephen Spender - The New York Review of Books) . “Rilke made the sturdy sonnet, recast the sonorous song
Le Guin. Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Babette Deutsch's classic translations capture the rich harmony and suggestive imagery of the originals, allowing interpretations both religious and philosophical and transporting the reader to new heights of inspirations and musicality.. A beautiful bilingual gift book of poems: selections from Rilke’s legendary masterpiece, The Book of Hours, with a new introduction by Ursula K. Written as spontaneously as received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but is rather humanity itself, and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist
Beautiful Dianne E. Guinn I have bought copies of this for many people and I keep a paperback copy to lend in addition to my first edition hardcover. Some of the writing is so lovely that if I read very many of the poems at once, I feel intoxicated. I would recommend this to most anyone.. Tascha Dresser said Poems from book of hours by Rilke brief but beautiful. Some years ago I acquired the version of Rilkes book of hours translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows and loved them so much ( please see review I wrote for this particular translation). I was hoping to find one poem from the book of hours that was included in the Macy/Barrows translation and even earli. "A little piece of Rilke's Heaven" according to Linda Wilk. Poems from the Book of Hours is wonderful for a few reasons:First, it contains both the German and the English translation opposite each other, and if you are a mediocre German reader, as I am, it is wonderful to be able to practice one's reading by having both available. The English translation can't reall