This volume of new translations of some Rilke poems is made up of two parts. The first gives – in facing pages that allow a line-by-line comparison – the original German text and Hellmut Juretschke’s own translation of each poem. The second part offers for each poem comments on detailed choices that had to be made in translating specific words and sentences within the context of the overall framework and mood of that poem, as well as on the appropriate rhyme and rhythm close to reflecting those of the German original, all originating from the author’s personal responses to Rilke’s texts.