From Notebooks and Personal Papers - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848616023 ISBN 13: 9781848616028

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2018

Synopsis

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), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest German-language poets of the 20th century. He wrote both verse and lyrical prose, often of a mystical nature. His works include one novel, several collections of poetry and a number of volumes of correspondence. Rilke travelled extensively throughout Europe, and in his later years settled in Switzerland. While Rilke is most known for his work in German, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. In the anglophone world, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter).

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848616023
• ISBN 13: 9781848616028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228