{"product_id":"duino-elegies","title":"Duino Elegies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/strong\u003e (author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartyn Crucefix\u003c\/strong\u003e (translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to the real world observed with acute and visionary intensity. Completed in 1922, the same year as the publication of Eliot's The Waste Land, the Elegies constitute a magnificent godless poem in their rejection of the transcendent and their passionate celebration of the here and now. Troubled by our insecure place in this world and our fractured relationship with death, the Elegies are nevertheless populated by a throng of vivid and affecting figures: acrobats, lovers, angels, mothers, fathers, statues, salesmen, actors and children. This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century,\u003cstrong\u003e RAINER MARIA RILKE \u003c\/strong\u003e(1875 - 1926) was born in Prague and led a nomadic existence, living in Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy and France before his death in Switzerland from leukaemia. He dedicated himself exclusively to his work, including the New Poems (1907 - 8), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARTYN CRUCEFIX\u003c\/strong\u003e's own poetry - for which he has won numerous prizes, including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship - has been praised as 'urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful' (Poetry London). His collections include Beneath Tremendous Rain (1990), At The Mountjoy Hotel (1993), On Whistler Mountain (1994), A Madder Ghost (Enitharmon, 1997), An English Nazareth (Enitharmon, 2004) and Hurt (Enitharmon, 2012). His translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Corneliu Popescu Prize and chosen by the novelist Philip Pullman as one of his 40 favourite books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60173380452736,"sku":"9781907587597","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3281\/8754\/files\/DuinoElegies.jpg?v=1792589495","url":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookshop.co.uk\/products\/duino-elegies","provider":"Rudolf Steiner Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}