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Pushkin Classics: Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
- Pushkin (Faber)
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Publisher | Pushkin (Faber) |
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ISBN | 9781782277804 |
Publication date | October 2024 |
Edition | Paperback (B format) |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 112 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
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Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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.