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Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition - Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition

By: Rainer Maria Rilke, C. F. MacIntyre (Translator)

Paperback | 22 May 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Begun in 1912 at the castle of Duino near Trieste, these ten Elegies were finally completed, after a decade of sporadic and protracted creation, at the Château Muzot in the Swiss Valais. Rilke considered them his greatest achievement, and, as MacIntyre suggests, they are "among the great and unforgettable poetry of the world."

Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarme, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.
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In his short introduction, poet Peter Porter makes the case for this new translation of the much-translated masterwork (first published in 1922) by Germany's mystical modernist: Cohn avoids the thumping dissonance of previous versions, and preserves Rilke's ambiguities and the organic structure to this oracular and combative poetic sequence. (Kirkus Reviews)

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