
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
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Stephen Mitchell
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"Rilke has at last found, in Mitchell's version, the ideal English poetics and the perfect translator." (William Arrowsmith, co-author of The Craft and Context of Translation)
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Slow down and let it seep in.
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florid! but at times beautiful
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Beautiful poetry, nicely read
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My main complaint is that this audiobook omits the author's Foreword (where much of Mitchell's contributions are) and one of the Sonnets to Orpheus (XVI of the First Part). While some readers might care to hear only the poems themselves without any of the biographical context or notes on translation method on the Foreword, it seems that anyone who ordered this book would want to hear all of the poems in their entirety. Here's hoping it is rerecorded and rereleased in greater fullness.
Missing material
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Remarkable poetry read by its best translator
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Superb reading
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warning: listen before buying
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While it is regrettable that so bland an effort has the corner on this one work, it is perhaps refreshing to be sent back to a silent reading of Rilke’s written text to discover the vivid dimensions that the poetry's inherent power invariably creates on its own.
Numbing Reading of a Great Poet
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Atrocious reading of a good translation
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