Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Rainer Maria Rilke Klappentext Introduced by J.B.Lieshman. Zusammenfassung Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and ‘willingness to remain a perpetual beginner’. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous ‘Duino Elegies’ and ‘The Sonnets to Orpheus’, in which his most intense experiences of living and being find their noblest expression.

Product details

• Authors: Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
• Assisted by: J. B. Leishman (Editor), J. B. Leishman (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780141183497
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118349-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature