![]() Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. His books include Tremor Canvas Mysticism for Beginners Without End Eternal Enemies Unseen Hand Asymmetry Solidarity, Solitude Two Cities Another Beauty A Defense of Ardor and Slight Exaggeration-all published by FSG. He is the author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Bruegel.Īdam Zagajewski (1945–2021) was born in Lvov, Poland. He is the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rainer Maria Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. ![]() He died of leukemia in December 1926.Įdward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. ![]() ![]() Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. ![]()
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