£9.95
Title: Duino Elegies
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : The Hogarth Press
Publication 1939 First Edition
Format: Hardback
Condition: Brown cloth covers which have some light bumping to spine and corners. Spine fading. No dust Jacket. Pages are clean with no ink or pencil marks. Picasso’s Les Saltimbanques to frontispiece. Previous owners name to front
Book measures: 22cm x 14.5cm with 160 pages
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Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies puzzles over the meaning of life through mystical poetry. Written while Rilke was in solitude, these lyrical elegies tackle existential themes of God, love, death and what it means to be human. They introduce angels, lovers, poets, prophets and puppets that wander restlessly, seeking transient meaning amidst beauty. Rilke’s rhythmically flowing verses contemplate society’s institutions, anxieties and how one finds purpose when confronted with the abyss. Full of honest self-reckoning and philosophical questioning, the Duino Elegies influenced generations of poets and intellectuals in the 20th century and cemented Rilke’s fame. This collection exemplifies European modernist poetry at its profoundest, casting a sensitive eye on the radiance and griefs of mortal existence.
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