![]() ![]() ![]() Pictured from top left to bottom right: Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duineser Elegien, Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1923: cover, title page with unicorn watermark (below and the the right of Leipzig), “Die Erste Elegie” and back page stating that this is the first edition and copy 48 of 300 printed on handmade paper. Here is Spencer Library’s copy of this first edition printed on handmade paper with the beginning of “Die Erste Elegie” (English: “The First Elegy”). The first edition of Duineser Elegien was published in 1923 in Leipzig. Special Collections, call number: Rilke X18. Located on the front page from volume 1 of his work, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1910. Inscription by Rainer Maria Rilke: “Herrn Justizrath Löwenfeld in dankbarer Erinnerung…Schloss Duino…Januar 1912” ![]() ![]() The inscription by Rilke pictured below was probably created as he was beginning to write these poems. So in honor of his 141 st birthday yesterday, we’re highlighting some of our amazing books by Rilke from Spencer Library’s Special Collections.ĭuineser Elegien (English: Duino Elegies), which is considered one of his masterpieces, was begun in 1912 at Duino Castle near Trieste, Italy. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most beloved German-language poets of the twentieth century. ![]()
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