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Duino Elegies
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Description: The first - ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle by Vita and Edward Sackville - West reissued for the first time in 90 years In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville - West. This marked the English debut of Rilke's masterpiece which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times influencing countless poets musicians and artists across the English - speaking world. Published for the first time in 90 years the Sackville - Wests translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank - verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain this reissue casts one of European literature's great masterpieces in fresh light.
Title: Duino Elegies
Author(s): Rilke Rainer Maria
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782277804
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/4/2025
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Description: The first - ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle by Vita and Edward Sackville - West reissued for the first time in 90 years In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville - West. This marked the English debut of Rilke's masterpiece which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times influencing countless poets musicians and artists across the English - speaking world. Published for the first time in 90 years the Sackville - Wests translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank - verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain this reissue casts one of European literature's great masterpieces in fresh light.
Title: Duino Elegies
Author(s): Rilke Rainer Maria
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Barcode: 9781782277804
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/4/2025
Series: Pushkin Press Classics
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets