Duino Elegies

Name: Duino Elegies
Brand: Enitharmon Press
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By (author): Rainer Rilke

Translated by: Martyn Crucefix

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 by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to the real world observed with acute and visionary intensity. Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesmen, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 08 May 2013
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781907587597

About Rainer Rilke

Perhaps the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875 - 1926) was born in Prague and led a nomadic existence living in Germany Russia Spain Italy and France before his death in Switzerland from leukaemia. He dedicated himself exclusively to his work including the New Poems (1907 - 8) the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). MARTYN CRUCEFIX's own poetry - for which he has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship - has been praised as 'urgent heartfelt controlled 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) An English Nazareth (Enitharmon 2004) and Hurt (Enitharmon 2012). His translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon 2006) was shortlisted for the Corneliu Popescu Prize and chosen by the novelist Philip Pullman as one of his 40 favourite books.