by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943)
The Prodigal Son
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
It would be difficult to persuade me that the story of the Prodigal [ ... ]
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Confirmed with Stephen Mitchell, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, pp. 107-115. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.
Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), "The Prodigal Son", copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by E. Scott Wilkinson (1962 - 2011), "The Prodigal Son", 1991 [ speaker and viola ] [sung text not yet checked]
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