With all his contradictions, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the fathers of modern literature and the Duino Elegies one of its great monuments. Begun in 1912 but not completed until 1922, they are 'modern' in almost every sense the word has...
mehr
With all his contradictions, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the fathers of modern literature and the Duino Elegies one of its great monuments. Begun in 1912 but not completed until 1922, they are 'modern' in almost every sense the word has acquired; yet Rilke was by temperament anti-modern, a snob and a romantic. He was devoted to the three A's: Architecture, Agriculture, Aristocracy. The Duino Elegies aroused real excitement among English readers when the now-dated Leishman/Spender versions first appeared in the 1930s. Stephen Cohn, the distinguished artist and teacher, has wo
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Introduction; Die erste Elegie; The First Elegy; Die zweite Elegie; The Second Elegy; Die dritte Elegie; The Third Elegy; Die vierte Elegie; The Fourth Elegy; Die fünfte Elegie; The Fifth Elegy; Die sechste Elegie; The Sixth Elegy; Die siebente Elegie; The Seventh Elegy; Die achte Elegie; The Eighth Elegy; Die neunte Elegie; The Ninth Elegy; Die zehnte Elegie; The Tenth Elegy; Notes; Copyright
