Bücher von Rainer Maria Rilke

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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 of the "Duino Elegies", a work begun some ten years earlier but set aside due to Rilke's own emotional distress over the tragic events of World War I and his conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army. He wrote in a letter to the deceased girl's mother that Wera's ghost was "commanding and impelling" him to write. The results of this "savage creative storm" are generally considered as Rilke's masterpieces. "Duino Elegies" is an intensely spiritual group of verses that ponders the beauty and existential suffering of life. Together these works exhibit why Rilke is widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense of all German-language poets. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

In May 1926, Rilke sent his publishers an arrangement of German-language poems as a possible manuscript; most date to 1924, but the collection also included material from a recovered 1906 daybook and a final set of poems from his last two years. This volume is the first English translation of these poems in the arrangement Rilke set down in 1926.

Siehe Nachwort des Herausgebers Joerg K. Sommermeyer, S. 322 ff.

Nach Rainer Maria Rilkes Gedichte: Das Stunden-Buch, Das Buch der Bilder, Neue Gedichte, Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil, Requiem, Das Marien-Leben, Duineser Elegien, Die Sonette an Orpheus (Hrsg. von Joerg K. Sommermeyer, Orlando Syrg, Berlin 2018, OrSyTa 92018 / Reihe Alte Tradition Azurcelesteblueoscuro RAT ACBO 7) wird die Rilke-Ausgabe fortgesetzt und findet ihren Abschluss mit Rilkes Prosa: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, Ewald Tragy, Erzählungen, Skizzen, Geschichten vom lieben Gott, Auguste Rodin (Studie), Essays und Besprechungen.

This collection of Rilke's best novels includes some of his most magical and mysterious works. This selection includes his first poems, The Book of Pictures poems, New Poems, The Book of Hours poems, The Book of Pilgrimage poems, The Book of Poverty and Death poems.Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. Rilke wrote in both verse and highly lyrical prose. His work is often described as deeply mystical.

These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future.