Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics) [Paperback]

Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Stephen Cohn (Translator), Peter Porter (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: European Poetry Classics | Publication Date: May 27, 1998

Poetry. Rainer Maria Rilke, along with Yeats, Mandelstam, and Pessoa, is regarded as one of the great European poets of his century, and by many as the outstanding German poet between Holderlin and Celan. DUINO ELEGIES is Rilke's masterpiece. This cycle of poems, language grasped at its speech-seed, was composed in a three-week blaze of creative energy in 1922, the annus mirabilis which saw the first publication of The Wasteland, Ulysses, and Pound's early Cantos. Rilke, the Santa Claus of loneliness, in Auden's cheeky phrase, said that the elegies were dictated to him, entrusted to him. Of all English versions of Rilke's elegaic symphony, these by the German scholar and poet Patrick Bridgwater may well incarnate the deepest reconciliation of that necessarily warring menage a trois: beauty, truth, and fidelity.

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Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)
Original Language: English

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Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (May 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810116480
• ISBN-13: 978-0810116481
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,460,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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