Selected Poems
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- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2001
Summary
Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and ‘willingness to remain a perpetual beginner’.
The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous ‘Duino E…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141183497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141183497 |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 92g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), one of Germany’s greatest lyrical poets, was born in Prague. He studied literature and the history of art in Munich and Berlin, and lived for some time in Paris where he was a secretary to the sculptor Rodin. He died in Switzerland.
Throughout his life, Rilke travelled restlessly around Europe. He met Tolstoy in Russia (1900), worked as secretary to Rodin in Paris (1905-6), and enjoyed aristocratic hospitality, particularly at Castle Duino near Trieste, as a guest of Marie von Thurn und Taxis between 1910 and 1914. He also worked as a clerk in Austria during the war, finally settling at the Château de Muzot in Valais after 1922.
The turning-points in his career include the Neue Gedichte (‘New Poems’) of 1907-8, the journal-novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), and the Duineser Elegeien and Die Sonette an Orpheus of 1922. His final interest was Paul Valéry, whose poems, Charmes, he translated in 1925 and imitated in his own Poèmes français.
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