Uncollected Poems

Rilke, Rainer Maria (translated from the German by Edwrad Snow)

ISBN 10: 0865474826 / ISBN 13: 9780865474826

Verlag: North Point Press, New York, NY, 1996

Beschreibung

NYC: North Point, 1996. 1st edition, 2nd printing, NF/NF. Book and dust jacket have wear to upper spine. The uncollected work exceeds 500 pieces, of which more than 1oo are printed in this volume. Side-by-side German-English text. Nice copy, 266 pp. BP. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007519

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Uncollected Poems

Verlag: North Point Press, New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1996

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition

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Inhaltsangabe:

Distilling the best of Rainer Maria Rilke's uncollected poems and offering a selection that conveys the variety of Rilke's lesser-known writings, a collection of poems reveals a freer, less polished poet and comprises a great achievement in twentieth-century poetry.

Reseña del editor:

Between the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry - the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he wrote poetry continually, often prolifically - in letters, in guest books, in presentation copies, and chiefly in the pocket-books he always carried with him. The body of this uncollected work in German exceeds five hundred pieces, a remarkable number of which must be counted among Rilke's finest poems. They range from finished poems of great poise and brilliance, to headlong statements that hurtle through their subjects, to hauntingly self-contained "fragments, " to short bursts that arc into the unpursuable. Together they share a nakedness and an immediacy of voice that make them feel uncannily contemporary and draw the reader close. Edward Snow's selection of more than a hundred of these little-known and neglected poems - the first edition of such scope for the general reader - distills the best of the uncollected poems while offering a wide enough choice to convey Rilke's variety and industry during the years he wrote them.