The Sonnets to Orpheus
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. first thus. hardcover. 8vo 183pp. translated and introduction by Stephen Mitchell. from front flap: "The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke represents one of the most amazing outpourings of concentrated poetic achievement in world literature. Written in conjunction iwth the great DUino Elegies and dedicated to the memory of Vera Knoop, a beautiful young Dutch woman whose premature death deeply affected the poet, the cycle of Sonnets was completed in less than a month. [. . .] The result was both a masterpiece of German literature and a landmark of modern poetry." Book VG: shelf wear/soil to boards and spine, corners bumped, text unmarked, binding tight / DJ VG-: corner and edge wear, age toning, NOT clipped. Item #2451
ISBN: 0671557084
#02516.
Price: $20.00