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The Duino Elegies [Paperback]

Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Louis Hammer (Author), Sharon Ann Jaeger (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1991

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 (translation)
Original Language: German

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Product Details

Paperback: 91 pages
Publisher: Sachem Pr; Unabridged. edition (September 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0937584150
ISBN-13: 978-0937584156
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,336,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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