Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so
profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as
Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn
Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to
the real world observed with acute and visionary intensity.
Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The
Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in
their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate
celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in
this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies
are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting
figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues,
salesmen, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers
twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the
power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece.
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