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Loading... Fifty selected poems (edition 1940)by Rainer Maria Rilke
Work InformationSelected Poems, Bilingual edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Rilke's book of poems are just incredible. They bring in a sense of peace and a type of quiet that I have never felt as strongly from other poets. That quiet is only on the surface however. As you delve into the poem further, there's so much going on - making them all the more powerful. ( ) no reviews | add a review
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)831.912Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German poetry 1900- 1900-1990 1900-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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