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Duino Elegies

Duino Elegies

  • Author: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vita Sackville-West, Edward Sackville-West
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • ISBN: 9781782277798
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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 Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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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Edward Sackville-West / fiction / German / international / poetry / Rainer Maria Rilke / staff recs / translation / Vita Sackville-West /