Monday, September 28, 2015

Bi-lingual selected "Sonnets to Orpheus"


     I posted in my Mythology class Edmodo site Robert Hunter's English translation of Rilke's masterpiece. Here is a link to about half of them, from Cliff Crego:

http://cs-music.com/features/sonnets-to-orpheus.html

"Gesang ist Dasein/ Song is being"   III. Sonnet

Rilke wrote all 55 of these in about a month. At the time he was finishing the "Duino Elegies".  I feel like such a slacker.
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