Duino Elegies (European Poetry Classics): A Bilingual Edition - Softcover

Rainer Maria Rilke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810116480 ISBN 13: 9780810116481

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Duino Elegies are the culmination of the development of Rilke's poetry. A summary of his spiritual troubles, perhaps no volume of poems in a European language has made so dramatic and sustained an impact on English-speaking readers in this century.

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About the Author:

Ren Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

From the Back Cover:

Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, 'to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810116480
• ISBN 13: 9780810116481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100