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XIX; 105 S.; 21,5 cm; kart.

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Ein gutes Exemplar. - erste Seite mit Widmung und SIGNIERT von Patrick Bridgwater. - Englisch - deutsch. - Patrick Bridgwater was, until his recent early retirement, Professor of German at the University of Durham ... He is the author of several articles on Rilke, whose Duino Elegies he taught throughout his career. ... (S. 1) // DUINO ELEGIES. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), along with Yeats, Mandelstam and Pessoa, is regarded by all as one of the great European poets of the century, and by many as the outstanding German poet between Holderlin and Celan. Duino Elegies is Rilke's masterpiece. This cycle of poems, 'language grasped in its speech-seed', was completed in a three-week blaze of creative energy in 1922, the annus mirabilis which saw the first publication of The Waste Land, Ulysses and Pound's early Cantos. Rilke, 'the Santa Claus of loneliness' (Auden's cheeky phrase), said that the Elegies were 'dictated' to him, 'entrusted' to him. Of all the English versions of Rilke's 'elegaic symphony', these by the German scholar and poet Patrick Bridgwater may well incarnate the deepest reconciliation of that necessarily warring menage a trois: beauty, truth and fidelity. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : INTRODUCTION --- THE ELEGIES --- Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel --- Who, if I cried, would hear me among the Orders of --- Jeder Engel ist schrecklich. Und dennoch, weh mir --- Every Angel is terrible. And yet, alas --- Eines ist, die Geliebte zu singen. Ein anderes, wehe --- It is one thing to sing the beloved, another, alas --- O Bäume Lebens, o wann winterlich? --- O trees of life, when will our winter be? --- Wer aber sind sie, sag mir, die Fahrenden, diese ein wenig --- Who are they, though, teil me, these acrobats . . . --- Feigenbaum, seit wie lange schon ists mir bedeutend --- Fig tree, how long now it has been important to me --- Werbung nicht mehr, nicht Werbung, entwachsene Stimme --- Wooing no longer, not wooing, from wooing weaned --- Mit allen Augen sieht die Kreatur --- With every eye the creature sees the open --- Warum, wenn es angeht, also die Frist des Daseins --- Why, if it's possible to spend our span of life --- Daß ich dereinst, an dem Ausgang der grimmigen Einsicht --- Oh that I may, emerging at last from this vision of terror --- NOTES --- INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF THE ELEGIES. ISBN 1874320268