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Duino Elegies (Paperback) Loot Price: R325
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Duino Elegies (Paperback)

Rainer Rilke, Edward Snow

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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
-from "The First Elegy"

Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With their symbolic landscapes, prophetic proclamations, and unsettling intensity, these complex and haunting poems rank among the outstanding visionary works of the century.

General

Imprint: North Point Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2001
First published: March 2001
Authors: Rainer Rilke • Edward Snow
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-607-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 0-86547-607-1
Barcode: 9780865476073

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