num_pages: 285
description: Rilke's great cycle of ten elegies, perhaps his most profound poetic achievement, had its inception on the morning of January 21, 1912, but was interrupted by the First World War and not completed until a decade later. The Duino Elegies are not only the result of an extraordinary kind of contact with the unseen world; they are an attempt to understand that world in its holistic relationship to the visible, tangible world. This powerful rendering of the cycle is a product of the collaboration between a poet, Norris, and a Germanist, Keele.
language: English
title: Duino Elegies
titlecomplete: Duino Elegies (Studies in German Literature Linguistics & Culture)
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Fiction, Spirituality, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Poetry
ratings_count: 8749
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: Patrick Bridgwater
publisher: Camden House