Duino Elegies Deluxe Edition

<b>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</b> <p/>In 1931 Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's <i>Duino Elegies</i> 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. <p/> Published for the first time in 90 years the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle.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.