In the Vimeo below, Alfred Corn reads “The First Elegy,” and in the spirit of the centennial absolutely hits the nail on its ecstatic head. Duino Elegies, Deluxe Edition: The Original English Translation of Rilkes Landmark Poetry Cycle, by Vita and E Dward Sackville-West - Reissued for. The first-ever English translation of Rilkes landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West reissued for the first time in 90 yearsIn 1931. When I asked if I could record him reading some of his translation for my blog, he suggested we do it on February the 11th, a hundred years to the day that Rilke finished The Duino Elegies, begun a decade earlier, following a long depression, after he heard a cry-perhaps an angel’s-in the wind. In the space of ten elegies, presented here in a bilingual edition, an impassioned monologue struggles to find an individual answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness. Because mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut, I really appreciate it. The Duino Elegies are one of the twentieth centurys great works of art.

In what I think is a tour de force of expertise and will, Alfred Corn has translated the epiphanies of Rilke into our English it must have been a lot of work, and it’s a gift.

Leishman and the renowned poet Stephen Spender, who established a standard of literary. So, I looked forward to Rilke again, and I was not disappointed. The definitive English translation of the Duino Elegies remains the 1939 version produced by J. For those who hear the poet tell them that they have to change the lives they are living, there is no turning back. When I was in my early twenties, Rilke was one of the poets who showed me what a poet was in a seminal knowing way.

a being who affirms the recognition, in the invisible, of a higher order of reality.A few years ago, the news that Alfred Corn was working on a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies made me very happy. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. The 'Angel' of the Elegies has nothing to do with the angel of the Christian heaven (rather with the angelic figures of Islam). A new translation of Rilke’s classic elegiesten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred. Much has been written about the Elegies, but one of the most useful insights comes from a letter Rilke wrote to his Polish translator, Witold von Hulewicz, in November 1925:

Duino elegies translation