Los sonetos a Orfeo

The month of February 1922 was favorable for Rilke's poetry: in three frenetic weeks two of the most important collections of poems of the 20th century were completed: Duino's Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, which emerged from a outburst of inspiration as a consequence and culmination of those. Rilke refers to these sonnets as a "gift" or "gift," and to those turbulent days of February as "a nameless storm, a hurricane of the spirit." Rilke's collection of poems and notes are offered here, in a bilingual edition by Juan Barja, along with a careful and lucid hermeneutical work by Patxi Lanceros carried out in two ways: an extensive introductory study and some illuminating interpretive glosses on each of the poems. sonnets.