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First published under the title "An Unofficial Rilke", Hamburger's translations have been critically acclaimed for their contribution towards a more complete understanding of one of the major poets of the 20th century. While Rilke has been perhaps more widely translated into English than any other modern poet, the emphasis has always been on 'major works' - the "New Poems" volumes, "Duino Elegies" and "Sonnets to Orpheus". Yet Rilke produced many more poems which had little or no airing beyond the confines of his workshop. Michael Hamburger argues in his perceptive and entertaining introduction that these poems are not inferior to the poems in the collections that form the accepted corpus; rather that they merely failed to fit in with Rilke's wish to form a definitive statement.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Turning-point
• Subtitle: Miscellaneous Poems 1912-1926
• Author: Rainer Rilke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780856463532
• ISBN: 0856463531
• ID: 04741146
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 170 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 2003

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