A further peculiarity resides in the fact that the book is based on 'ten introductory readings, given before general audiences by members, and former members, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in Cambridge', as the editors inform us in their preface. However, it differs from such precursors by allotting all the Elegies to different critics (or, in one case, a pair of critics), who have apparently been given free rein in their interpretations and who also append their own new translations to the German text. Komar's Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987). This volume offers extended linear interpretations of Rilke's ten Duino Elegies, and in that respect resembles Jacob Steiner's Rilkes Duineser Elegien (Bern: Francke, 1962) and Kathleen L. London: Duckworth Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press. Rilke's 'Duino Elegies': Cambridge Readings.
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