{"product_id":"sonnets-to-orpheus-and-duino-elegies-9780486838670","title":"Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e. Inspired by the death of a friend's daughter, the poet felt that he was being compelled to write by the girl's ghost. At about the same time he also completed \u003ci\u003eDuino Elegies, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich he had begun ten years earlier. Intimately connected to the \u003ci\u003eSonnets\u003c\/i\u003e in themes and sensibilities, the \u003ci\u003eElegies \u003c\/i\u003eoffer meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning that express Rilke's irresolvable conflict between a longing for solitude and a painful loneliness. \u003cbr\u003e Although his poetry was recognized and admired by leading European artists, the Austro-Bohemian poet was virtually unknown during his lifetime, achieving international acclaim only with these final masterpieces. This edition presents translations by Jessie Lemont, praised by London's \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e for their presentation of Rilke as \"a writer of short individual lyrics, often of incomparable, impressionist vividness, plastic vitality and symbolic suggestiveness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45035095949463,"sku":"9780486838670","price":434.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780486838670.webp?v=1769211424","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sonnets-to-orpheus-and-duino-elegies-9780486838670","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}