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Article: OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
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- January 1, 1999
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Thorkild Bjornvig. Samlede digte 1947-93. Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 1998. 497 pages. ISBN 87-00-32274-1.
Thorkild Bjornvig's collected poems, published in observance of his eightieth birthday, will bring enormous pleasure to admirers of his work; unfortunately, the volume does not include his three books of translations from Rilke (1949, 1957, 1958), where his close knowledge of and affinity for the Austrian poet-and his own great verbal gifts-make these renderings masterpieces. (Maybe someday, as an act of gratitude, his Rilke og tysk tradition [1946, printed 1959] will be issued in German or English, so that it will be accessible to the large run ...