EAN: 9781782277804

RILKE RAINER MARIA DUINO ELEGIES

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fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry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.

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