The Book of Images
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The Book of Images
by Authors:
Rainer Maria Rilke , Edward Snow
Released: June, 1994
ISBN: 086547477X
Paperback
Sales Rank: 75,246
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Customer Review #1:
Great poetry, great translation, great text
Rilke ranks among the worlds greatest poets. Each poem in the Book of Images is an elegant snapshot of a beautiful world. Snows translation is superb, and he is commonly regarded as the preeminent English translator of Rilkes poetry. This text contains the translation and the original German side-by-side so that readers can gain a better appreciation of Rilke. The Snow translatio of the Book of Images is one of the greatest English-language poetic achievements.
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Customer Review #2:
A superb translation of Das Buch der Bilder!
Rilke is that poet that you, if you are tormented by memories of high-school poetry lessons past (dactylic metre sound vaguely familiar?), ought try. His imagery is accessible, his meaning clear...and he manages simultaneously a beautiful degree of both spiritual and metaphorical richness.
Snows translations of Rilkes poetry are superb; he consistently preserves the metric structure and is also conscious of the need to employ every word and consider every nuance of meaning, rather than simply settling for glossing it (a surprisingly common problem in poetry translation). In the challenging world of finding faithful poetry translation, Snows work is outstanding...and the original material to my sense of literary aesthetics unsurpassed...little of Rilkes beauty is sacrificed in the execution of this translation. Rilkes simultaneous spareness, sensitivity, and richness endure here; rather than imposing himself upon the reader, Snow succeeds admirably at the translators task, and brings Rilke to the English-speaking audience.
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Customer Review #3:
Direct prose that is needed in this vague world
Rilkes poems are simple, describing everything for the reader. He never overpowers with metaphors and deeper meanings.
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