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Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Description for Duino Elegies
Paperback. Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. This translation was chosen by Phillip Pullman as one of his 40 favourite books. Translator(s): Crucefix, Martyn. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to the real world observed with acute and visionary intensity. Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with ... Read more
Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to the real world observed with acute and visionary intensity. Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
144g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587597
SKU
V9781907587597
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Ref
99-10
About Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century, RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875 - 1926) was born in Prague and led a nomadic existence, living in Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy and France before his death in Switzerland from leukaemia. He dedicated himself exclusively to his work, including the New Poems (1907 - 8), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte ... Read more
Reviews for Duino Elegies
Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' POETRY LONDON: 'substantial, powerful and necessary work' TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: 'masterful transformations of difficult German syntax into a natural and contemporary English'