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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 best selling poets to this very day.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
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Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems
by Rainer Maria Rilke
©2021 Wilder Publications
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Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-5127-3
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
FIRST POEMS
EVENING
MARY VIRGIN
THE BOOK OF PICTURES
PRESAGING
AUTUMN
SILENT HOUR
THE ANGELS
SOLITUDE
KINGS IN LEGENDS
THE KNIGHT
THE BOY
INITIATION
THE NEIGHBOUR
SONG OF THE STATUE
MAIDENS I
MAIDENS II
THE BRIDE
AUTUMNAL DAY
MOONLIGHT NIGHT
IN APRIL
MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD
DEATH
THE ASHANTEE
MUSIC
MAIDEN MELANCHOLY
MAIDENS AT CONFIRMATION
THE WOMAN WHO LOVES
PONT DU CARROUSEL
MADNESS
LAMENT
SYMBOLS
NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
THE POET
THE PANTHER
GROWING BLIND
THE SPANISH DANCER
OFFERING
LOVE SONG
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
THE BOOK OF HOURS
THE BOOK OF A MONK'S LIFE
I LIVE MY LIFE IN CIRCLES
MANY HAVE PAINTED HER
IN CASSOCKS CLAD
THOU ANXIOUS ONE
I LOVE MY LIFE'S DARK HOURS
THE BOOK OF PILGRIMAGE
BY DAY THOU ARE THE LEGEND AND THE DREAM
ALL THOSE WHO SEEK THEE
IN A HOUSE WAS ONE
EXTINGUISH MY EYES
IN THE DEEP NIGHTS
THE BOOK OF POVERTY AND DEATH
HER MOUTH
ALONE THOU WANDEREST
A WATCHER OF THY SPACES
Introduction: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritual physiognomy, its ultimate and lasting expression.
The process of Art is on the one hand sensuous, the conception having for its basis the fineness of organization of the senses; and on the other hand it is severely scientific, the value of the creation being dependent upon the craftsmanship, the mastery over the tool, the technique.
Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all time to come, ever strives for elimination and selection. It is severe and aristocratic in the application of its laws and impervious to appeal to serve other than its own aims. Its purpose is the symbolization of Life. In its sanctum there reigns the silence of vast accomplishment, the serene, final, and imperturbable solitude which is the ultimate criterion of all great things created.
To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and the most accurate instrument by which to measure Life.
Poetry is reality’s essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the reaction to Life’s phenomena. The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral