Duino Elegies, Deluxe Edition The Original English Translation Of Rilke's Landmark Poetry Cycle

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke; Vita Sackville-West (Translator); Edward Sackville-West (Translator)

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Price : $30.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781782277804
Publisher : Pushkin Press, Limited
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Publication date : 04 March 2025
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Author : Rainer Maria Rilke; Vita Sackville-West (Translator); Edward Sackville-West (Translator)
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Pages : 112
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The first-ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West - reissued for the first time in 90 years

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Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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.