North Point Press The Poetry of Rilke

Beautiful writing and an excellent binding 😇

My copy has defective printing, some pages are very tiresome to read, especially at night due to the moved printing.

It would be a somewhat absurd and presumptuous enterprise to "review" Rilke himself, so to be clear, this is a review of this edition, which is superb. Facing-page editions are always the way to go for poetry translations, and it works here due to the excellent translations, a hit-or-miss enterprise in any translation of poetry. We finally have an expansive and affordable such collection of Rilke's work which is convenient for both English and German readers for those of the latter located where similarly high-quality editions are quite expensive. This edition is both cheap and light enough, without sacrificing translation quality or usability, to not fear taking on the train, to the woods, by the pool, etc. Of course this is not a scholarly, critical edition - that would be the Rilke-Archiv version of the Sämtliche Werke - but I am not a Rilke scholar, and the, once again, superb facing-page translation and low cost will allow me to share the joys of Rilke with English-only friends and students together, at the same time.

Rilke for discerning readers.A major contribution to Rilke studies.

Not the complete anthology but reliable translation