Otherlands: Translations of Jean Cassou, Rainer Maria Rilke & other poets - Couverture souple

 
9781848614796: Otherlands: Translations of Jean Cassou, Rainer Maria Rilke & other poets

Synopsis

Otherlands brings together a compendium of Harry Guest's translations from French, German, Italian and Japanese, although the largest representations are those of Cassou (33 sonnets composed in secret) and Rilke (several pieces, including The Lay of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke von Langenau), and runs from poets of the 16th century to our contemporaries.

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À propos de l?auteur

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. A further collection, Some Time, appeared in 2010, while Shearsman also published a mixed volume of translations and original work, Comparisons & Conversions, in 2008. His many other translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows (2002) and the Penguin volume, Post-War Japanese Poetry (with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shôzô, 1972).

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