| Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Cohn, Stephen (Translator), Porter, Peter (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0810116480 ISBN-13: 9780810116481 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $15.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, 'to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.912 |
| LCCN: 98-02714 |
| Series: European Poetry Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.06" W x 7.76" (0.28 lbs) 100 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Duino Elegies are the culmination of the development of Rilke's poetry. A summary of his spiritual troubles, perhaps no volume of poems in a European language has made so dramatic and sustained an impact on English-speaking readers in this century. |