This collection presents poems by Rainer Maria Rilke chosen from across his career, from the early Book of Hours and the New Poems with their precise object poems, such as The Panther and Archaic Torso of Apollo, to the late Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. The poems address themes of death, love, angels, solitude and the act of seeing. Rilke's German is musical and difficult, shifting between plain observation and mystic invocation.
It suits readers who want to get to know the German poet through a representative selection, and it's a natural choice for those comparing the originals with English versions.
Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1966
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp
- ISBN
- 9783518011843
- Language
- DE
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