The Odyssey
Homer
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.
Selected Poems
Translated by Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland
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ABOUT THE BOOK
'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us'
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets to Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry.
This bilingual edition, with the German text alongside the English, fully reflects Rilke's poetic development. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26, with an introduction and notes.
DETAILS
- Author
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Original language
- German
- Translated by
- Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland
- Genre
- Poetry · Modern Classics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- This edition
- July 2011
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN
- 9780199569410
- Language
- en
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