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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100865476128

ISBN-139780865476127

eBay Product ID (ePID)742943

Product Key Features

Book TitleNew Poems : a Revised Bilingual Edition

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicEuropean / German, General

GenrePoetry

AuthorRainer Maria Rilke

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-042714

Edition DescriptionRevised edition,Bilingual edition

SynopsisThe formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic. Paris was to change everything. Rilke's interest in Rodin deepened and his enthusiasm for the sculptor's "art of living surfaces" set the course for his own pursuit of an objective ideal. What was "new" about Rilke's New Poems , published in two independent volumes in 1907 and 1908, is a compression of statement and a movement away from "expression" and toward "making realities." Poems such as "The Panther" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" are among the most successful and famous results of Rilke's impulse. This selection from both books unites the companion volumes in a torrent of brilliant work intoxicated with the materiality of the world. Edward Snow has now improved upon the translations for which he received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and with which he began his twenty-year project of translating Rilke.

LC Classification NumberPT2635.I65N413 2001