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A biography of the German poet combines detailed interpretations of his life with an intimate reading of his verse and prose and shows how he grew from an ambitious versifier into a great poet
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Combining empathetic insight into the poet's life with intimate understanding of the poet's work, exhaustive research with a storyteller's flair, Freedman creates portraits of the young Rilke living out the poetic imagination, an older Rilke realizing his calling as one of the century's greatest poetic visionaries,culminating in such works as the Duino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet.
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Ralph Freedman is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0374186901
- ISBN 13 9780374186906
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages639
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