Sonnets to Orpheus Bilingual Edition Review

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Sonnets to Orpheus Bilingual Edition ReviewThese are sometimes portentous and ponderous translations of Rilke's quixotic poems: not generally inaccurate, but leaden and often incomprehensible in English, weighed down by the decision to rhyme (even though Barnstone does not always follow Rilke's actual rhyme schemes). Just one example: in sonnet XVI, Rilke's final line is "Hier. Das ist Esau in seinem Fell". "Fell" rhymes with "schnell", which Barnstone translates, unexceptionably, as "fast"; but then the final line becomes "Here/is Esau in his belt and fated caste"- which is unclear, pompous, and a mess. The Unicorn sonnet, 2. IV, sounds flat and odd. Leishman's translation is incomparably better, maybe because Leishman saw himself as giving a a discreet crib, not as making, in Barnstone's claim, "the literal literary". Barnstone is often a fine translator. Here he falls into the bizarrely pedestrian. If you're looking for a good literary translation of the Sonnets to Orpheus, keep looking.Sonnets to Orpheus Bilingual Edition Overview

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