"Perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has produced." - Chicago Tribune
"The best single-volume edition of Rilke available in English." - Boston Review
"Without any doubt the best English rendering of Rilke that I have come across." - Erich Heller
"Stephen Mitchell's translations bring the qualities that I most cherish in the originals into English with new intimacy and authority. Rilke's voice, with its extraordinary combination of formality, power, speed and lightness, can be heard in Mr. Mitchell's versions more clearly than in any others. His work is masterful." - W. S. Merwin
"His translation of the DUINO ELEGIES–Rilke's masterpiece–is the best that has been made... intensely readable–yet he has not simplified the ideas." - Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books
"Excellent... it is easy to feel that if Rilke had written in English, he would have written in this English." - Denis Donoghue, The New York Times Book Review
