Rainer Rilke , Martyn Crucefix (Translator)
Duino Elegies
- ISBN 13:
- 9781907587597
- author:
- Rainer Rilke , Martyn Crucefix (Translator)
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Enitharmon Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 103
- Dimensions:
- 12.7 x 1 x 21.6 cm
- Genre:
- Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Poetry, , Rainer Ri
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated into English with remarkable clarity, these poems offer a profound and lasting impact on readers. Completed in 1922, they constitute a magnificent godless poem that celebrates the here and now, rejecting the transcendent in favour of a passionate engagement with the world around us. The Elegies are populated by vivid and affecting figures, including acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesmen, actors, and children. Their troubled relationship with death is a recurring theme, yet they remain a throng of living, breathing characters that draw the reader into their world. This bilingual edition presents Rilke's enduring masterpiece in a new light, offering twenty-first century readers a fresh opportunity to experience its power.
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