Duino Elegies

The first-ever English translation of Rilke`s landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West ­- reissued for the first time in 90 years In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf`s Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke`s Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the English debut of Rilke`s masterpiece, which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times, influencing countless poets, musicians and artists across the English-speaking world. Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests` translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke`s poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature`s great masterpieces in fresh light.