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Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young. Rilke revived and transformed the traditional sonnet sequence in the Sonnets. Instead of centering on love for a particular person, as has many ...
Sonnets to Orpheus, series of 55 poems in two linked cycles by Rainer Maria Rilke, published in German in 1923 as Die Sonette an Orpheus. The Sonnets to Orpheus brought Rilke international fame. The Sonnets to Orpheus are concerned with the relationship of art and poetry to life.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote the ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ over an intensely creative three-week period in February 1922, during which he also completed the ‘Duino Elegies’. The Sonnets were prompted by the earlier death of Wera Knoop, a childhood friend of his daughter Ruth, and in them Rilke develops the theme of the double-realm ...
Before and after, Rilke rapidly wrote both parts of the poem cycle Sonnets to Orpheus containing 55 entire sonnets. Both works together have often been taken as constituting the high points of Rilke's work. In May 1922, Rilke's patron Werner Reinhart bought and renovated Muzot so that Rilke could live there rent-free.
THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Temple, is a collection of 55 lyrical poems inspired by the myth of Orpheus, the musician who could charm the underworld with his song. Explore the beauty and depth of Rilke's poetic vision, and learn more about his life and work.
It's a shame I couldn't have read Sonnets to Orpheus in the original text, but alas, my German is not up to scratch. Whilst writing in 1922 on his deeply philosophical Duino Elegies, and experiencing what he described as a 'savage creative storm' Rilke wrote these extraordinary, darkly bewildering and joyful cycle of sonnets, 55 of them in fact, one just as good as the other, like an album ...
Explore the poetic masterpiece of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus, in a new translation by Robert Temple. Discover how Rilke reimagines the ancient myths of Orpheus, Eurydice, Apollo and others in lyrical and musical sonnets that celebrate the power of art and love.
