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  • Selected Poems

    The Collected Works of Goethe, Volume 1

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Christopher Middleton, Michael Hamburger, David Luke, John Frederick Nims, Vernon Watkins ...
    Authoritative English translations of Goethe’s major poetic worksGoethe created a body of poetry that is unsurpassed in lucidity of speech and imagery and in instinct for melody and rhythm. The founder of the poetry of experience, he reintroduced intimacy to the public world, and his poems have something for everyone. Nonetheless, Goethe the poet remains relatively unknown to contemporary English ... Read more

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  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. ... Read more

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  • Faust

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s masterpiece of human ambition, morality, and the quest for redemption Perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead ... Read more

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  • The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

    A Dual Language Edition

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of ... Read more

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  • The Poetry of Rilke

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Journey into the heart of German poetry with this bilingual collection of work from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.Experience a deep dive into the mesmerizing world of one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century with The Poetry of Rilke. Uncover an unparalleled collection of Rilke's finest works, elegantly translated over the course of two decades by acclaimed scholar ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Book of Hours

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Edward Snow ...
    **“The most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators.” —Michael Dirda, Washington PostA gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry.**Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke’s distinctive voice and vision—where clarity of diction meets unexpected ... Read more

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  • Duino Elegies

    A New and Complete Translation

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Alfred Corn ...
    A new translation of Rilke’s classic elegies—ten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred.Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten elegies survey the ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Selected Poems and Fragments

    by Friedrich Hölderlin ...
    Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Mozart's The Magic Flute - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

    by Burton D. Fisher ...
    A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • The Book of Lieder

    by Ian Bostridge, Richard Stokes ...
    This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Delphi Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm (Illustrated)

    by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Carl Grimm ...
    Series Book 15 - Delphi Series Eight
    The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German academics, philologists and lexicographers, whose first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales has enjoyed enduring popularity, influencing the works of countless other writers, while changing the course of children’s literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm, with numerous ... Read more

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  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' POETRY LONDON: 'substantial, powerful and necessary work' TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: ... Read more

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