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OverviewDuino Elegies are the ten magnificent poems that defined the Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke's artistic vision of life, death, eternity, and the human condition. Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe invited Rilke to stay at her castle in Duino, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. He stayed alone in the castle for about four months and, on a cold day in January, 1912, when he was contemplating how to answer a business letter that he received, he walked out into the freezing windy morning and, walking along a path by the bastions looking down at the violent waves of the Adriatic a couple of hundred feet below him, he heard someone speak, but when he turned around, he was alone and the voice that he heard spoke the famous opening lines of the First Elegy: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der Engel/ Ordnungen? ( Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic/ Orders? ). Dr. Gartner presents a new translation of Rilke's magnum opus as well as of a selection of ten famous poems from Rilke's collected works. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rainer Maria RilkePublisher: AuthorHouse Imprint: AuthorHouse Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.108kg ISBN: 9781434367976ISBN 10: 1434367975 Pages: 64 Publication Date: 09 March 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |