Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Duino Elegies: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition)

Duino Elegies: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition)

Rilke, Rainer Maria
Burrows, Mark S.

Paperback

Literary CriticismReligion General General Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 22, 2026

ISBN10: 1966608470
ISBN13: 9781966608479
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Duino Elegies stand as the capstone of Rilke's poetic work.


He began work on them at Schloss Duino, an Italian seaside village, during the winter of 1912, completing them a decade later in 1922. These poems articulate Rilke's hope, voiced in the Tenth Elegy, that I, one day, standing at the end of this harsh vision, / might sing out with joy and praise to the assenting angels. They stand as his final testament as a writer, an epic work which traces the long experience of love that shapes our lives. Across the span of these poems we find ourselves in a visionary landscape where love and death, suffering and rejoicing, anguish and celebration together constitute the Whole. Rilke invites us to practice what he once called heart-work, a way of living by which we learn to see how being-here is magnificent.

Also from

Rilke, Rainer Maria

View All

Also in

General Poetry

View All