Duino Elegies : duineser elegien elegies from the castle of Duino / Rainer Maria Rilke ; translated from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by Vita Sackville-West and Edward Sackville West ; with an introduction by Lesley Chamberlain.
First published as Duineser elegien elegies from the castle of Duino by The Hogarth Press in 1931.
Summary:
"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 Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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." --Amazon.com.
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