From Notebooks and Personal Papers - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848616023 ISBN 13: 9781848616028

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2018

Synopsis

Poetry. Translated by David Need. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism. From 1921-1926, he lived in southern Switzerland, in a region called the Valais. Following the completion of the DUINO ELEGIES and Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke began to work in both French and German. A collection of French poems addressed to the landscape of Valais, Quatrains Valaisans, was published in 1926. In May of that same year, Rilke sent his publishers an arrangement of German language poems as a possible manuscript; the bulk of these date to 1924, but the collection included both material culled from a recently recovered 1906 daybook and a final set of poems written over the last two years of his life. Rilke sent the last of these in August 1926; he would die of complications from leukaemia just four months later. This volume is the first English translation of these poems in the arrangement Rilke had set down in 1926. The arrangement translated here has only appeared in German as Aus Taschen-Büchern und Merk-Blättern, (Insel-Verlag, 1950).

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About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Rilke was born in Prague, lived throughout Europe, and spent his final years in Switzerland, where he wrote the Duino Elegies. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848616023
• ISBN 13: 9781848616028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210