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A highly original selection of poems by this greatest of modern poets, both well-known favorites and new discoveries, all of them rendered in new versions that combine contemporary speech with Rilke's inimitable poetic voice, a voice that is by turns somber, majestic, and remarkably playful. This collection, drawing primarily on Rilke's extremely rich middle period and concluding with a selection from his late Sonnets to Orpheus, offers a clear, powerful, and contemporary Rilke. David Young's introduction charts the crucial growth of the poet's modernism in his Paris years, finding in his admiration for artists like Cezanne, Rodin, and Van Gogh a new conception both of the working artist and of art's true subject matter.
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RAINER MARIA RILKE was born in Prague in 1875. After a motley education at military and business schools and at Prague's Charles University, he traveled in Europe, Russia, Egypt, and Tunsinia. In addition to Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke's works include the Duino Elegies, The Book of Pictures, Poems from the Book of Hours, New Poems, and The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke died in 1926.
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- PublisherOberlin College Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0932440681
- ISBN 13 9780932440686
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages108
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