Sonnets To Orpheus : Rilke [ Kelly – Winterton Press , 25 of 85 ]
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One of 85 copies of the Kelly – Winterton Press edition of Rilke ‘s Sonnets To Orpheus
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Sonnets To Orpheus First Of Originally Two Parts Translated From The German By M.D. Herter Norton. Kelly – Winterton Press : New York. 1981. First thus, limited edition, #25 of 85 copies.
An early work from the Kelly – Winterton Press this copy of Ranier Maria Rilke ‘s enigmatic Sonnets To Orpheus is one of 85 copies printed on handmade Kelmscott linen rag paper using types created by the celebrated designer Emil Rudolf Weiss “who was born in the same year as Rilke”. Press co-founder Jerry Kelly also provided the calligraphic title design.
Sonnets To Orpheus, originally written as a “grave marker” in what Rilke described as a “creative storm” in 1922 following the death of his daughter’s friend Vera Ouckama Knoop (1900 – 1919), is a haunting poetry cycle evoking elements of Virgil’s Ecologues, serving as a meditation on mortality, death, youth, and the nature of divinity.
Topics such as these appear to have been early interests for the Kelly – Winterton Press who also published their own extract from Book VI of the Aeneid in 1990, Aeneas In The World of the Dead.
8vo, 33pp + 1, charcoal ribbed boards with slight inward curve to fore edges. Deckled edges. Blue-grey pastedowns and endpapers. Hand numbered number 25 of 85. Near Fine.
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