![]() ![]() Stephen Cohn, the distinguished artist and teacher, has worked for over three years to complete this outstanding new translation. ![]() The Duino Elegiesaroused real excitement among English readers when the now-dated Leishman/Spender versions first appeared in the 1930s. He was devoted to the three A's: Architecture, Agriculture, Aristocracy. Begun in 1912 but not completed until 1922, they are 'modern' in almost every sense the word has acquired yet Rilke was by temperament anti-modern, a snob and a romantic. ![]() With all his contradictions, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the fathers of modern literature and the Duino Elegiesone of its great monuments. ![]()
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