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Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated. Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It’s not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and best selling poets to this very day.
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Release dateSep 21, 2021
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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest German-language writers to have ever lived. He is best known for his Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

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    Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke

    Poems

    Rainer Maria Rilke

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    Table of Contents

    INTRODUCTION

    FIRST POEMS

    EVENING

    MARY VIRGIN

    THE BOOK OF PICTURES

    PRESAGING

    AUTUMN

    SILENT HOUR

    THE ANGELS

    SOLITUDE

    KINGS IN LEGENDS

    THE KNIGHT

    THE BOY

    INITIATION

    THE NEIGHBOUR

    SONG OF THE STATUE

    MAIDENS I

    MAIDENS II

    THE BRIDE

    AUTUMNAL DAY

    MOONLIGHT NIGHT

    IN APRIL

    MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD

    DEATH

    THE ASHANTEE

    MUSIC

    MAIDEN MELANCHOLY

    MAIDENS AT CONFIRMATION

    THE WOMAN WHO LOVES

    PONT DU CARROUSEL

    MADNESS

    LAMENT

    SYMBOLS

    NEW POEMS

    EARLY APOLLO

    THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL

    THE POET

    THE PANTHER

    GROWING BLIND

    THE SPANISH DANCER

    OFFERING

    LOVE SONG

    ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO

    THE BOOK OF HOURS

    THE BOOK OF A MONK'S LIFE

    THE BOOK OF PILGRIMAGE

    THE BOOK OF POVERTY AND DEATH

    Introduction: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

    The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritual physiognomy, its ultimate and lasting expression.

    The process of Art is on the one hand sensuous, the conception having for its basis the fineness of organization of the senses; and on the other hand it is severely scientific, the value of the creation being dependent upon the craftsmanship, the mastery over the tool, the technique.

    Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all time to come, ever strives for elimination and selection. It is severe and aristocratic in the application of its laws and impervious to appeal to serve other than its own aims. Its purpose is the symbolization of Life. In its sanctum there reigns the silence of vast accomplishment, the serene, final, and imperturbable solitude which is the ultimate criterion of all great things created.

    To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and the most accurate instrument by which to measure Life.

    Poetry is reality’s essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the reaction to Life’s phenomena. The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into everlasting values. In this act of creation he serves eternity.

    Poetry, in especial lyrical poetry, must be acknowledged the supreme art, culminating as it does in a union of the other arts, the musical, the plastic, and the pictorial.

    The most eminent contemporary poets of Europe

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