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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I''d be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
-from The First Elegy

Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke''s most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke''s German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With

Duino Elegies

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      Publisher North Point Press
      Published 14 March 2001
      ISBN-13 9780865476073
      978-0865476073
      ISBN-10 0865476071
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      Poetry Rainer Maria Rilke Books by Rainer Maria Rilke

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
      orders? and even if one of them pressed me
      suddenly to his heart: I''d be consumed
      in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
      but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
      and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
      to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
      -from The First Elegy

      Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke''s most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke''s German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

      Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With

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