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 Published for the first time in 90 years,the Sackville-Wests'translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782277798Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
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The deepest mysteries of existence embodied in the most delicate and precise images. For me,the greatest poetry of the 20th centuryFascinatingA real event... this gorgeous hardcover collector's item is worth it for the look - and for the backstory
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