Duino Elegies

Long dissatisfied with the romantically conveived, obscure translations of Rilke's great work, William Crichton, with his sister Mary, strove for a translation as straightforward and transparent, yet lyrically beautiful, as Rilke's original. Over the years, the Crichtons have produced a work in English worthy of Rilke's Duino Elegies, originally written at Duino near Trieste beginning in 1912 and completed at Château Muzot in Switzerland in 1923. Rilke considered this work one of his greate...