Rainer Maria Rilke
1) Poems
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Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has, captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated.
Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It's not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and bestselling poets to this very day.
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The cycle of 55 sonnets that comprise Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" were written in a period of three weeks during 1922, a time which the poet himself described as a "savage creative storm." Inspired by the death of his daughter's friend, Wera Knoop, Rilke commenced to the production of "Sonnets to Orpheus," a work filled with mythological and biblical allusions. During the same burst of creative energy he set to working on the completion...
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COMPOSED IN A BURST of inspiration near the end of the poet's life, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus represents the consummation of the writer's career, distilling the essence of his poetic wisdom in a gem-like sequence. This new translation--with the original German on facing pages--offers a clear window into the world of this endlessly scintillating cycle of poems. "Daniel Polikoff's English version of Rilke's last sonnet sequence, perhaps his greatest...
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Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."
5) Rodin
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Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions. Many of his sculptures were criticized and considered controversial because of their sensuality or hyperrealist qualities. His most original works...
6) Rodin
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Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l'Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l'un des artistes les plus reconnus de l'histoire. Bien qu'il soit considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la sculpture moderne, Rodin n'a jamais critiqué la tradition classique. Nombre de ses sculptures furent critiquées et controversées en raison de leur sensualité ou de leur réalité crue. Ses œuvres les plus originales...
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Selected work from the modernist poet thematically centered on our relation to the physical world and our minds, featuring original texts and translations.
The Inner Sky is a selection of poems and prose by the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, set with the original text and a translation, and including more than a dozen works that have never before appeared in English.
Searls's selection of texts clusters around a handful of related images and ideas-birds...
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
-from "The First Elegy"
Over the last fifteen-years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book...
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Rilke wrote these poems in 1899 after returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia, calling them simply "the prayers." They reflect the intensity of his experience of the East, voicing his fascination with Orthodox churches and monasteries. The icons, so different than the religious art he encountered on an earlier trip to Italy, seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. These luminous prayers gesture as verbal icons, their images illumining...
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First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German.
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En 1903, un poète de vingt ans, Franz Xaver Kappus, alors étudiant à l'Académie militaire de Wiener-Neustadt, décide d'envoyer à Rainer-Maria Rilke, ses premiers essais poétiques accompagnés d'une lettre dans laquelle il lui avoue douter de sa vocation. Il ne pouvait espérer plus belle écoute et plus juste accueil à ses incertitudes. Pendant 5 ans, de 1903 à 1908 , avec une extrême délicatesse, Rilke répondra régulièrement à ce jeune...
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Rilke's prayerful responses to the French master's beseeching art
For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.
Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.
Rilke was knowledgeable...
13) Die Näherin
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Es war im April des Jahres 188.. Ich war gezwungen meine Wohnung zu wechseln. Mein Hausherr hatte sein Haus verkauft und der neue Besitzer war entschlossen, das Stockwerk, in welchem mein bescheidenes Zimmer sich befand, ungeteilt zu vermieten. Ich suchte lange nach einem anderen-erfolglos. Endlich nahm ich des Suchens müde fast ungeschaut ein Kämmerchen im dritten Stock eines Gebäudes, dessen Längsseite keinen unbedeutenden Teil der engen Seitengasse...
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Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. Rilke traveled extensively throughout Europe, finally settling in Switzerland, the inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is best...
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Los Nuevos poemas (1907) y De los nuevos poemas, la otra parte (1908) forman una unidad claramente diferenciada de su producción poética anterior, pero también de sus trabajos posteriores.
En este libro, Rilke crea "poemas-obras" que representan una exploración lírica del mundo físico. La influencia de la escultura de Auguste Rodin —Rilke fue su secretario personal entre 1905 y 1906— es central para el desarrollo de su concepto de "cosa-arte"...
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How these letters came to be, written is, told by their recipient in his introduction, and to this there would be nothing to add were it not for the close of the eighth letter: Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness...Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words." It is evident that a great artist,...
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Rainer Maria Rilke (Praga, 1875 - Valmont, 1926) fue un escritor austriaco que escribía en alemán y francés. Fue el poeta de lengua alemana más relevante e influyente de la primera mitad del siglo XX; amplió los límites de la expresión lírica y extendió su influencia a toda la poesía europea. Elegías de Duino son una colección de diez elegías publicadas en 1923. Rilke, reconocido como uno de los poetas en lengua alemana más intensamente...
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"Briefe an einen jungen Dichter" ist eine Sammlung von Briefen des österreichischen Dichters Rainer Maria Rilke, die an den jungen Dichter Franz Xaver Kappus gerichtet sind. Die Briefe erstrecken sich über den Zeitraum von 1902 bis 1908 und bilden einen tiefen und inspirierenden Dialog über Kunst, Leben und Kreativität. Rilke teilt seine Gedanken über Poesie, Selbstfindung und die Beziehung zur Welt um sich herum und bietet wertvolle Anleitungen...
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En la primera obra que presentamos en esta edición, Cartas a un joven poeta, un joven con voluntad de poeta, Franz Xaver Kappus, envía sus mejores versos a un artista consagrado, Rainer Maria Rilke solicitando su opinión. En sus cartas de respuesta, Rilke no realiza una crítica literaria sino que se adentra en la esencia misma de la poesía y del arte: por qué escribir, por qué crear, qué y cómo buscar. La soledad y el sufrimiento como sustrato...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, one of Germany's greatest poets, began this work in 1912, at the castle of Duino near Trieste. It took him a decade to complete these meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning, and he regarded them as his greatest achievement. Innovative and enigmatic, they express his irresolvable conflict between a longing for solitude and a painful loneliness. The elegies' enduring popularity attests to their vivid reflection of the...