The Rilke of Ruth Spiers : New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Others
Two Rivers Press
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-century German-language poets. Here, for the first time, are all the surviving translations of his poetry made by Ruth Speirs (1916-2000), a Latvian exile who joined the British literary community in Cairo during World War Two, becoming a close friend of Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer. Though described as 'excellent' and 'the best' by J. M. Cohen on the basis of magazine and anthology appearances, copyright restrictions meant that during her lifetime, with the exception of a Cairo-published Selected Poems (1942), Speirs was never to see her work gathered between covers and in print.This volume, edited by John Pilling and Peter Robinson, brings Speirs' translations the belated recognition\n\nRilke of Ruth Spiers\nNew Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Others\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked ser;
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