Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

1964-05-17
Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1964-05-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393350452
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The letters Rilke wrote during the war and postwar years are of particular interest not only for whatever they may contain of the wisdom of the poet, the artist, and the humanitarian, but for their analysis of the intellectual and spiritual currents of the time. These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future.

Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

1964-05-17
Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1964-05-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393001601
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The letters Rilke wrote during the war and postwar years are of particular interest not only for whatever they may contain of the wisdom of the poet, the artist, and the humanitarian, but for their analysis of the intellectual and spiritual currents of the time. These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future.

Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

1964-05-17
Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1964-05-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393001600
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The letters Rilke wrote during the war and postwar years are of particular interest not only for whatever they may contain of the wisdom of the poet, the artist, and the humanitarian, but for their analysis of the intellectual and spiritual currents of the time. These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future.

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926

1969-02-17
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1969-02-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393350479
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This volume of Rilke's letters covers the years from the completion of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge to Rilke's death in December 1926, nearly five years after he had written the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, his last major works. There are important letters here to Muzot, Lou Andreas-Salome, to Princess Marie of Thurn and Taxis Hohenlohe, and many others. The most significant of the Wartime Letters: 1914-1921 are also included. An Introduction briefly traces the development of Rilke's work during these years; the Notes provide the necessary framework of biographical details and point up significant references to the poetry.

Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

1969-02-17
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1969-02-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393004767
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This representative selection from Rilke's large and extraordinary correspondence provides a kind of spiritual autobiography of the poet. The period here covered reflects all the great experiences of Rilke's early adult life: his difficult beginnings, his relationships with Lou Andreas-Salome and with his wife Clara, his two journeys to Russia, his contact with the Worpswede artists, the influence of Paris, the revelation of Cezanne. Many of the letters are psychologically revealing; many touch upon characteristic themes, or freshly transcribe experience that sooner or later passes into the poetry.

Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

1993-08-17
Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1993-08-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0393350509
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Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.

Selected Poems

2011-04-14
Selected Poems
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 1105
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0191620173
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'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translations are accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduction and notes that elucidate Rilke's poetic practice and his central role in modern poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.