COMPLETE FRENCH POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE, THE - Softcover

Rainer Maria Rilke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555973612 ISBN 13: 9781555973612

Publisher: GRAYWOLF PRESS, 2003

Synopsis

It isn't widely known that Rilke, who ranked as one of the finest writers for his work in German, also wrote over 400 poems in French. The French poems were written toward the end of Rilke's life, after producing his masterworks, the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. """"The French poems give new significance and dimension to Rilke's cannon."""" - Chicago Sun Times

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About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

Edition details

• Publisher: GRAYWOLF PRESS
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555973612
• ISBN 13: 9781555973612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392