I love this translation

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	• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke Vintage, 1989 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a lifeline

This is one book I cannot live without.
I can't read German, so I am grateful for the translation, and Rilke's genius is not lost in translation. :)

Favorites? I can't name just one. You who never arrived...For the sake of one poem...The Prodigal Son...Spanish dancer...
Oh, the sheer beauty and power of his words make the familiar unfamiliar - alive. Whenever I feel down, I find myself leafing through these pages and the blues will slip away, making me appreciate life with all its ups and downs.

A book to read for a lifetime!

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I love this translation

Who couldn't love Rilke's writing? It's about life and the perplexities in it. It's about the little things and the big. Every now and then we all need somebody who has been there and done that to tell us it is normal to question and wonder - that is what these poems do for me.

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brilliant

Ethereal and beautiful writing. Rilke deserves his reputation as a premier German poet. The translation is good too.

The angel of the word!

Rainer Maria Rilke' s exquisite stylistic sobriety and his thought's deepness makes of him one of the most absorbing and interesting poets of the second half of the XIX Century. His febrile style contrasts with the delicacy of his verses, loaded of penetrating vision and prolific display of visual images that conveys us with the mythic roots.

The words in Rilke's poetic have major expression, density and expression; a strong expansiveness and excel significance.

His reading is an absolute must for any hard reader I any corner of the world.

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"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.

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