Rilke - The Life of the Work

A full-length study of the work of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) that studies the breadth of his work, including the translations and the late poems written in French.

List of contents

• 1: Rilke's Openings


• 2: Beginnings


• 3: Das Buch der Bilder and Das Stunden-Buch


• 4: Neue Gedichte


• 5: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge


• 6: Rilke's Requiems


• 7: The Interim I: 1907-1914


• 8: The Interim II: 1914-1922


• 9: Duineser Elegien


• 10: Die Sonette an Orpheus


• 11: Tender Taxes and Other Departures

About the author

Charlie Louth is Fellow and Tutor in German at The Queen's College, University of Oxford.

Summary

A full-length study of the work of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) that studies the breadth of his work, including the translations and the late poems written in French.

Additional text

The theme of Louth's book is nothing less than Rilke's 'work' itself, more precisely what it means to see his work as having a 'life'...One of the great strengths of Louth's study is the way it opens up thematic patterns within a chronological framework. It shows the life of the work in its overall extension and development, but also shows it gathering preoccupations and dwelling in them-as lives do.

Product details

• Authors: Louth , Charlie Louth, Charlie (Fellow and Tutor in German Louth, Louth Charlie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780198813231
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881323-1
• No. of pages: 656
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, german, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, POETRY / European / German, Poetry / poems by individual poets