Duino ElegiesThe captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville West In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville West. This marked the English debut of Rilke's masterpiece, which would go on to influence countless poets, musicians and artists across the English speaking

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But above all it is an immersive story told in a sumptuous style—like one of Poe's Italian tales rewritten by Proust—as Gregory Rabassa's translation beautifully conveys

the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world

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The focus is on major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes towards Islam in the modern West and the Middle East

The long reign of the sultanahs of Aceh is striking in a society where women rulers are usually seen as unnatural calamities

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Although the name Kazaruni speaks to an origin in Kazarun