Duino Elegies - by Rainer M Rilke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of the greatest sequences of poetry in modern European literature, pocket sized with a brilliant (new) cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Begun in 1912 at the castle of Duino near Trieste, these ten Elegies were finally completed, after a decade of sporadic and protracted creation, at the Château Muzot in the Swiss Valais. Rilke considered them his greatest achievement, and, as MacIntyre suggests, they are among the great and unforgettable poetry of the world. <br /><br />Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Who, if I shouted, among the hierarchy of angels would hear me? And supposing one of them took me suddenly to his heart, I would perish before his stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we can just barely endure, and we admire it so because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.<P>from The First Elegy<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>C.F. MacIntyre </b>(d.1967) was well known as a translator. In addition to works by Rilke, he translated Goethe's <i>Faust </i>and many of the French symbolists: Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Corbière, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Laforgue, and Valéry. His volumes of original poems include <i>The Black Bull, Cafés and Cathedrals, </i>and <i>Poems.</i>
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