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The cycle of 55 sonnets that comprise Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" were written in a period of three weeks during 1922, a time which the poet himself described as a "savage creative storm." Inspired by the death of his daughter's friend, Wera Knoop, Rilke commenced to the production of "Sonnets to Orpheus," a work filled with mythological and biblical allusions. During the same burst of creative energy he set to working on the completion...
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Rainer Maria Rilke (Praga, 1875 - Valmont, 1926) fue un escritor austriaco que escribía en alemán y francés. Fue el poeta de lengua alemana más relevante e influyente de la primera mitad del siglo XX; amplió los límites de la expresión lírica y extendió su influencia a toda la poesía europea. Elegías de Duino son una colección de diez elegías publicadas en 1923. Rilke, reconocido como uno de los poetas en lengua alemana más intensamente...
4) Jeder Engel ist schrecklich - Freie Rezitation von Rainer Maria Rilkes "Duineser Elegien". Live-M
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Rilkes Verse mit Kopf und Herz begreifen
Die "Duineser Elegien" gehören zum Schönsten, das in deutscher Sprache geschrieben wurde. Über zehn Jahre, von 1912-1922, arbeitete Rainer Maria Rilke an den Elegien, deren Thema die Fülle des menschlichen Daseins ist. Das Schauspieler:innen-Paar Franziska Walser und Edgar Selge widmet sich ihnen seit Jahren in gefeierten Darbietungen. Sie lesen sie nicht vor, sondern lassen sich vom Augenblick leiten und...
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In der berühmten Versdichtung "Sonette an Orpheus" zeichnet Rainer Maria Rilke die Lebensgeschichte des mythischen Sängers Orpheus nach. Eindringlich, poetisch, leidenschaftlich: Die Gedichte haben bis heute nichts von ihrem großen Reiz und ihrer intensiven Wirkung verloren.
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Rainer Maria Rilke hinterließ seiner Nachwelt ein bedeutendes Werk aus Prosa, Lyrik, Essays, Briefen und Tagebüchern, darunter so bekannte Gedichte wie Der Panther oder Das Karussell oder unvergessliche ins Wort gehobene Gesten wie etwa "Wie soll ich meine Seele halten, dass / sie nicht an deine rührt?". Diese Auswahl aus seinem umfangreichen lyrischen Werk ermöglicht viele Entdeckungen und lässt erleben, wie Rilke "das deutsche Gedicht zum ersten...
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How these letters came to be, written is, told by their recipient in his introduction, and to this there would be nothing to add were it not for the close of the eighth letter: Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness...Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words." It is evident that a great artist,...
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Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent Rilke some of his verses, seeking an opinion of their worth. Rilke declined to offer a critique, instead encouraging the student to rely upon his own inner judgment: "Nobody can advise and help...
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Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry and letters have inspired countless readers around the world with their wisdom and insight into how we can be more than ourselves without recourse to religion, politics, or ideology: through the experiences of art and love. Gathered here for the first time in original translations are Rilke's candid, piercing, and lyrical reflections on love-the experience he considered paramount for human existence but also, with the exception...
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"Briefe an einen jungen Dichter" ist eine Sammlung von Briefen des österreichischen Dichters Rainer Maria Rilke, die an den jungen Dichter Franz Xaver Kappus gerichtet sind. Die Briefe erstrecken sich über den Zeitraum von 1902 bis 1908 und bilden einen tiefen und inspirierenden Dialog über Kunst, Leben und Kreativität. Rilke teilt seine Gedanken über Poesie, Selbstfindung und die Beziehung zur Welt um sich herum und bietet wertvolle Anleitungen...
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Los Nuevos poemas (1907) y De los nuevos poemas, la otra parte (1908) forman una unidad claramente diferenciada de su producción poética anterior, pero también de sus trabajos posteriores.
En este libro, Rilke crea "poemas-obras" que representan una exploración lírica del mundo físico. La influencia de la escultura de Auguste Rodin —Rilke fue su secretario personal entre 1905 y 1906— es central para el desarrollo de su concepto de "cosa-arte"...
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Selected work from the modernist poet thematically centered on our relation to the physical world and our minds, featuring original texts and translations.
The Inner Sky is a selection of poems and prose by the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, set with the original text and a translation, and including more than a dozen works that have never before appeared in English.
Searls's selection of texts clusters around a handful of related images and ideas-birds...
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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 bestselling poets to this very day.
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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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Rilke's French poetry appears here for the first time in readable, musical versions. Largely unknown and rarely collected, these poems were written during the euphoria Rilke felt after having completed his greatest German works, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. At the same time, Rilke was growing increasingly ill with a rare, undiagnosed form of leukemia. He died just four short years into the production of these poems, and death appears...
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COMPOSED IN A BURST of inspiration near the end of the poet's life, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus represents the consummation of the writer's career, distilling the essence of his poetic wisdom in a gem-like sequence. This new translation--with the original German on facing pages--offers a clear window into the world of this endlessly scintillating cycle of poems. "Daniel Polikoff's English version of Rilke's last sonnet sequence, perhaps his greatest...
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