Duino Elegies

Begun in a period of spiritual crisis in 1912, and completed in a second such creative burst in 1922, this collection of complex, symbolic, and haunting lyrics is considered Rilke's signature achievement. Snow, widely seen as the finest Rilke translator of his generation, here continues his unprecedented effort to render the great poet's masterworks in English. The ten poems in the Duino Elegies are among the most visionary writings of the twentieth century—and in this new bilingual translation (with the German and English on facing pages) both scholars and general readers will find the language uniformly clear, flexible, and accurate.