NMLP P-045445 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke · Insel-Verlag, Leipzig · 1923
Original-language true first = Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1923 (numbered deluxe issue of 300 plus the ordinary trade issue, both 1923). First English = Hogarth Press, London, 1931 (Vita & Edward Sackville-West). The celebrated Leishman & Spender Hogarth bilingual edition of 1939 is a 'first thus' — the second English translation, not the first English.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045445 for "Duino Elegies" by Rainer Maria Rilke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045445, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).