The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke, Rainer Maria; Kline, A. S.
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The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. A translation into English with Commentary by A. S. Kline. Illustrated with photographs of the sculpture of Auguste Rodin.
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Rainer Maria Rilke, was born in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, in 1875. He studied in Prague and Munich before travelling widely. In 1902 he arrived in Paris, where he subsequently became Auguste Rodin’s secretary. It was here that he developed the more objective style of his collection New Poems (Neue Gedichte, 1907).
During the winter of 1911/1912 Rainer Maria Rilke was invited to Castle Duino, near Trieste, where he began the Duino Elegies. The work would, however, remain unfinished for a decade. Creatively muted by bouts of depression, in part caused by the First World War, Rilke did not complete the Elegies until 1922. His Sonnets to Orpheus were written in the same year during a three-week paroxysm of creativity.
The Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus deploy and extend both his early lyrical gifts and subsequently more objective formal style in a poetry of philosophical and spiritual depth, centred around a view of life and death as forming a complete whole, and demanding a full human response to both the positive and negative aspects of both these ‘realms’. In that sense he is a poet of both darkness and light, of the bleak and sparse but also the spiritual and consolatory. Ideas from late nineteenth century existentialist philosophy, the influence of artists like Rodin and Picasso, and a subtle awareness of Psychology as a developing area of intellectual exploration, can all be found in his work, while his spiritual and poetic world is revealed as both highly individualistic and profoundly modernistic, despite its Romantic lyrical heritage.
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Rainer Maria Rilke, was born in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary now the Czech Republic, in 1875. He studied in Prague and Munich, later travelling to Italy, Russia (where he became acquainted with Boris Pasternak’s family) and Germany where he met and married Clara Westhoff. Their daughter Ruth was born in 1901. In 1902 he travelled to Paris, where he subsequently became Rodin’s secretary, and where under Rodin’s influence he developed the more objective style of his collection New Poems (Neue Gedichte, 1907).
Rilke also spent time in Spain, at Ronda. In 1911 and 1912 he was at Duino, near Trieste, where he began the Duino Elegies, but spent the years of the First World War in Munich, before moving to Switzerland in 1919. He finally settled at Muzot, near Sierre in the Valais, where in a burst of inspiration, in 1921 and 1922, he completed the Duino Elegies and wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus. He produced a substantial number of further individual poems, which expressed his mature thought. After long periods of illness, he died at a sanatorium near Montreux in December 1926.
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