Tag: Sonnets

Free Download Robert Matz, "The World of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: An Introduction"
English | ISBN: 0786432195 | 2008 | 248 pages | EPUB | 869 KB
Of Shakespeare’s sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet’s world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.

Free Download Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet"
English | 2012 | pages: 138 | ISBN: 0359819567, 0819551597 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
The fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written by Rilke in February 1922, in less than two weeks. Their central themes are Orpheus and his song of praise; what is sung is "Dasein", "being- here", the presence in the world. Rilke considered as a betrayal of his poetry any translation that would not reproduce, together with his thinking, his internal movement, his rhythm, his rhymes, his music. The goal of the translator has been to make that orchestration "heard" as much as possible, to try and reproduce the structure, rhyme and rhythm, of Rilke’s Sonnets, in order for these translations to sound as echoes of the originals.