"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'/orders?" Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies opens with one of the most powerful poetic expressions of the search for meaning in the modern world. Published in 1923, the Elegies would influence important philosophers on the Continent, including Heidegger. But with a few exceptions, Rilke's poetry has not had an impact on philosophy in the Anglo-American world. In Being Here Is Glorious, James D. Reid offers a fresh translation of the Elegies, which hews to the...
With a new translation of the Duino Elegies
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'/orders?" Rainer Maria Rilke's Duin...
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'/orders?" Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies opens with one of the most powerful poetic expressions of the search for meaning in the modern world. Published in 1923, the Elegies would influence important philosophers on the Continent, including Heidegger. But with a few exceptions, Rilke's poetry has not had an impact on philosophy in the Anglo-American world. In Being Here Is Glorious, James D. Reid offers a fresh translation of the Elegies, which hews to the...
With a new translation of the Duino Elegies
"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'/orders?" Rainer Maria Rilke's Duin...
