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Duino Elegies

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ISBN-10: 0393328848

ISBN-13: 9780393328844

Edition: 2006 (Reissue)

Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke, David Young

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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,…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.80" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

David Young is a respected writer, commentator, journalist, environmentalist, and historian. Working independently in the field of history and the environment he work explores the nature-culture relationship, including perspectives from indigenous nature and indigenous culture.