Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke (author), Vita Sackville-West (translator), Lesley Chamberlain (author of introduction), Edward Sackville-West (translator)
Hardback Published on: 02/12/2021; Language: English, German (Original language of a translated text)
Price: £14.99
Synopsis
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Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- ISBN: 9781782277798
- Number of pages: 112
- Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
- Languages: English, German (Original language of a translated text)
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Lush edition, cool translation
The foil on this edition is truly lovely and the printing quality is great! Nice intro to a “lost” translation of my favourite elegies and the translation ... READ MORE
A great start to reading Rilke
I love reading but I am in no way an educated reader. I am not a poetry buff; I know nothing of metres nor blank verse so this may seem a strange choice of... READ MORE