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Duino Elegies
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Duino Elegies Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 831.912
EAN: 9780393328844
ISBN: 0393328848
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2006-06-12
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Dewey Decimal Number: 831.912
EAN: 9780393328844
ISBN: 0393328848
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2006-06-12
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Editorial Review of Duino Elegies
One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From out of the wind, which was blowing with great force, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders?). He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then went inside to continue what was to be his major work and one of the literary masterpieces of the century.
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From out of the wind, which was blowing with great force, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders?). He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then went inside to continue what was to be his major work and one of the literary masterpieces of the century.