Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Going All the Way
By J.M. Coetzee
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
by William H. Gass
Knopf, 233 pp., $25.00
In one of the many polls that have marked the year 1999, the Folio Society, a fairly staid British book club, asked respondents to name the five Poems of the Century. Four of the titles that came up were—not surprisingly—by English-language poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Plath. The fifth was Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies.
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