Duino Elegies
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Poetry. Translated from the German by Gary Miranda. Begun in 1912, interrupted by the Great War, and completed early in 1922, the ten meditations on love and death in Rilke's DUINO ELEGIES are perhaps the twentieth century's most sustained outpouring of lyricism. Abstract, allusive, and rich with imagery, this sequence has been attempted by many translators. Gary Miranda's 1981 version, reprinted here in a revised and expanded edition, is unsurpassed in rendering the challenging German text as a lucid and elegant poem in English.
"Rilke speaks through Gary Miranda as through a microphone, with an unprecedented combinatio
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Manufacturer: Tavern Books
Release date: 4 October 2013
ISBN-10 : 1935635328 | ISBN-13: 9781935635321
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Release date: 4 October 2013
ISBN-10 : 1935635328 | ISBN-13: 9781935635321

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" How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode. Who, i"
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