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Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

3.0

The selection itself is decent and Rilke's poetry is godlike, however, the translations provided by C. F. MacIntyre are absolutely awful, stilted and awkward, bearing none of the originals' mercurial flow. I had to re - translate all the poems myself as I was reading them (and my German is not as fluent to do it casually), so reading this book ended up being way more laborious than intended. I strongly recommend looking for other collections, because Rilke deserves to be represented in all his glory.