Rilke considered the Elegies his greatest achievement. Begun in 1912 at the castle of Duino near Trieste, these ten Elegies were finally completed after a decade of sporadic and protracted creation, in the winter of 1922. They are part of the same creative vein from which erupted, spontaneously and in far briefer time, the Sonnets to Orpheus.
As MacIntyre suggests, these elegies "indubitably . . . will take their place among the great and unforgettable poetry of the world." They have already been singled out critically as "the most impresive sequence of great poetry in modern European literature."
In this compact volume, the German original text is printed face to face with the translations.
- ISBN10 0520010736
- ISBN13 9780520010734
- Publish Date 1 August 1961
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 June 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Edition Bilingual ed
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 89
- Language English