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"After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. With Gass's own background in philosophy, it seemed natural to begin with the Duino Elegies, the poems in which Rilke's ideas are most fully expressed and which as a group are important not only as one of the supreme poetic achievements of the West but also because of the way in which they came to be written - in a storm of inspiration."--BOOK JACKET. "Gass examines the genesis of the ideas…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2015Columbia University Press · 264 pages · 9781564789129
- Other · English · 2000Basic Books · 272 pages · 9780465026227
- Other · English · 1999A.A. Knopf · 233 pages · 9780375403125
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