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Duino elegies / Rainer Maria Rilke ; a new translation, with an introduction and commentary, by David Young.
LIBRA PT2635.I65 D82 1992 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
- Standardized Title:
- Duineser Elegien. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- German poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1992.
- Summary:
- 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.'
- Notes:
- Originally published in Field, issues 5-9.
- Translation of: Duineser Elegien.
- ISBN:
- 0393309312
- 9780393309317
- OCLC:
- 30025969
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