Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke
Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations make it marvelously clear that the poem is profoundly committed to a real world, observed with an acute and visionary intensity. Completed in the same year as The Wasteland was published, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and in their passionate celebration of the here and now: Just once for each thing. Once and no more. And we too, just once. And never again. Yet to have been this once, and so utterly, even if only once - our having been on this earth can never be undone. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a vast throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesmen, actors and children. These vigorous and exciting translations and their accompanying commentary offer twenty-first century readers in English a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's greatest masterpiece.
'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' Magma
Martyn Crucefix Bio Martyn Crucefix's own poetry has won numerous prizes, including a Major Eric Gregory Award and a Hawthorden fellowship and has been praised as urgent, heartfelt and masterful (Poetry London). His collections include Beneath Tremendous Rain (1990), At The Mountjoy Hotel (1993), on Whistler Mountain (1994), A Madder Ghost (Enitharmon, 1997) and An English Nazareth (Enitharmon, 2004). He is founder member of the group ShadoWork, specializing in performing and writing collaboratively. For information on his work visit www.writersartists.net
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904634232 |
| ISBN 10 | 1904634230 |
| Title | Duino Elegies |
| Author | Rainer Rilke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-10 |
| Number of pages | 103 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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