Available for the first time in a single volume Ranier Maria Rilke& 8217;s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century& 8217;s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell& 8217;s versions of Rilke& 8217;s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity fluency and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke& 8217;s text to his formal music and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time Mitchell& 8217;s work has authority and power as poetry in its own right. Language: English