Sonnets to Orpheus
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Dimensions: 216 x 138mm
ISBN: 9781907587221
Artist: Martyn Crucefix, Rainer Maria Rilke
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback
Sonnets to Orpheus
In 55 sonnets, Rainer Maria Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. ‘Praising, that’s it!’ he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice – all are encompassed in poems that spark with insight, among the most joyful and light-footed that Rilke ever wrote.
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