Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library Series) FROM THE CRITICS
Chicago Tribune
Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
This is, without any doubt, the best English rendering of Rilke. It is as faithful to the original as the translation of poetry can hope to be, faithful not only to its linguistic meaning but to its poetic expressiveness. — Jonathan Lyons
Stephen Mitchell's translation of Rilke's most demandingly difficult and loveliest work instantly makes every other rendering obsolete. No doubt about it, Rilke has at last found, in Mr. Mitchell's version, the ideal poetics and the perfect translator. — Jonathan Lyons
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