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...introduction to the poet was through Stephen Mitchell’s celebrated 1989 translation of Rilke’s selected works. I know this collection intimately, and I’ve even committed a few of Mitchell’s translations to memory. I’ve also read Robert Bly’s 1981 translation, and David Young’s attempt at Rilke’s “Duino Elegies...
...translation is no Mitchell. Mitchell provided us with a Rilke that far surpassed anything that came before it. Snow, although inferior to Mitchell, has nevertheless crafted a body of translations that, had Mitchell not already done so, would have easily become “the” way to read Rilke in English...
...Read "Military Fears Gains with Muslim Soldiers May Be Lost...
...TIME over the the weekend, "In Maine, when people were asked to - and I would call it not so much a vote against human rights, but a vote in defense of a definition of marriage that we see as essential to our culture and our nature - they responded favorably." (Read about the aftermath of the gay-marriage referendum in Maine...
...Read "Stresses at Fort Hood Were Likely Intense for Hasan...