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  Rainier Maria Rilke Duino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet - 2 book set
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Make/Author/Artist: Rainer Maria Rilke
Edition/ Material: 2 volume set
Details: Soft Cover

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Product Code: 2RILKE

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Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. These translations by M.D. Herter Norton were the first to open Rilke's work to the English speaking world in accurate, sensitive, modern versions free from both embroidery and slavish adherence to rhyme.

The poems appear in German and English on facing pages.

THIS IS A TWO SET Offer :

Letters to a Young Poet - drawn by some sympathetic note in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world.

An accompanying chronicle on Rilke's life shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote these letters.

Duino Elegies - Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our deception and our fear. First published in 1923, one of his two last great works.

CONDITION: Both books lightly used in vg condition, clean.

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