num_pages: 85
description: Librarian's note: It's really rather naughty of Dover to republish and carefully expunge any information about the original publication. This particular edition was originally published by the University of California Press in 1961.A line of text is missing from the third stanza of the second Elegy at the top of p. 14.The great German poet regarded these meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning as his greatest achievement. Innovative and enigmatic, the enduringly popular elegies express Rilke's longing for solitude and his painful loneliness. These excellent translations are both true to the originals and poetic in their own right.
language: English
title: Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien
titlecomplete: Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien
genres: Fiction, Religion, Poetry, Philosophy, Spirituality, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Germany, 20th Century
ratings_count: 8749
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: Patrick Bridgwater
publisher: Dover Publications