Duino Elegies (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Elegy
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, God, Castles, Mysticism, Germany or German people, Winter, Princes or princesses, Angels, Acrobatics or acrobats
Critical Evaluation:
For the reader who must rely on a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s culminating work, the story and the man behind its appearance may overshadow the poem itself. No translation of the elegiac German original can do justice to the philosophy of the man who wrote it or be as deeply affecting as the inspiration that produced the work.
Rilke is often ranked with William Butler Yeats as one of the preeminent poets of the twentieth century. His poetic innovations might, however, be better compared with those of Gerard Manley Hopkins, though in the case...
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