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The Rilke of Ruth Speirs

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909747128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book The Rilke of Ruth Speirs written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-century German-language poets. Here, for the first time, are all the surviving translations of his poetry made by Ruth Speirs (1916-2000), a Latvian exile who joined the British literary community in Cairo during World War Two, becoming a close friend of Lawrence Durrell and Bernard Spencer. Though described as 'excellent' and 'the best' by J. M. Cohen on the basis of magazine and anthology appearances, copyright restrictions meant that during her lifetime, with the exception of a Cairo-published Selected Poems (1942), Speirs was never to see her work gathered between covers and in print.This volume, edited by John Pilling and Peter Robinson, brings Speirs' translations the belated recognition they deserve. Her much-revised and considered versions are a key document in the history of Rilke's Anglophone dissemination. Rhythmically alive and carefully faithful, they give a uniquely mid-century English accent to the poet's extraordinary German, and continue to bear comparison with current efforts to render his tenderly taxing voice.

Many Histories Deep

Author : Roger Bowen
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838635674
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Many Histories Deep written by Roger Bowen and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraser, and the Greek exiles George Seferis and Elie Papadimitriou.

Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus

Author : Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190685433
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus written by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the unique character and importance of the Sonnets, their philosophical import, as well as their significant connections to the Duino Elegies (completed in the same period). The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which approach a number of the central themes and motifs of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal and technical qualities. An introductory essay (co-authored by the editors) situates the book in the context of philosophical poetics, the reception of Rilke as a philosophical poet, and the place of the Sonnets in Rilke's oeuvre. Above all, this volume's premise is that an interdisciplinary approach to poetry and, more specifically, to Rilke's Sonnets, can facilitate crucial insights with the potential to expand the horizons of philosophy and criticism. Essays elucidate the relevance of the Sonnets to such wide-ranging topics as phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and philosophy of language, philosophy of mythology, metaphysics, Modernist aesthetics, feminism, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and the philosophy of technology.

The Four Poetic Cycles of Rainer Maria Rilke in English Translation with a Critical Discussion of Rilke's Marienleben

Author : Gordon L. Tracy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Four Poetic Cycles of Rainer Maria Rilke in English Translation with a Critical Discussion of Rilke's Marienleben written by Gordon L. Tracy and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rilke

Author : Charlie Louth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192542680
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Rilke written by Charlie Louth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the development of that life as it unfolds over Rilke's career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us when we read? This is a question of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses it in several poems and for whom the experience of reading affords an interaction with the world, a recalibration of our ways of attending to it, which set it apart from other kinds of experience. Rilke's work is often approached in periods—he is the author of the Neue Gedichte, or of Malte, or of the Duino Elegies, or of the Sonette an Orpheus—as if the different phases of his work had little to do with one another, but in fact it is a concentrated and evolving exploration of the possibilities of poetic language, a working of the life of words into precise and exacting forms in dialogue with the texture of the world. This book traces that trajectory in a series of close readings that do not neglect the lesser-known, uncollected poems and the poems in French, as well as Rilke's activity as a translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Barrett Browning, Mallarmé, and Valéry, among many others. These encounters were part of Rilke's engagement with the world, his way of extending the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the ungraspable movements, the risk and promise, of life itself. One of his best-known poems ends with the words 'You must change your life', an injunction that can be seen to animate the whole of his work.

Rilke: The Last Inward Man

Author : Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782277218
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Rilke: The Last Inward Man written by Lesley Chamberlain and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, the angels and roses of his poems deemed irrelevant. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed writer Lesley Chamberlain uses this charge as the starting point from which to explore the expansiveness of the inner world Rilke created in his poetry. Weaving together searching insights on Rilke's life, work, and reputation, Chamberlain casts the poet's inwardness as a profound response to a world that seemed to be losing its spirituality. In works of dazzling imagination and rich imagery, Rilke sought to restore value to Western materialism, encouraging not narrow introversion but the cultivation of a new sensibility in a secular world after the death of God.

Migration and Mutation

Author : Carole Birkan-Berz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501380478
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Migration and Mutation written by Carole Birkan-Berz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation. Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century. Migration and Mutation also pays attention to the political or subversive dimension of the sonnet, with essays on women, gay or postcolonial reclaimings of the sonnet and recent experiments such as post-Soviet Sonnets on shirts by Genrikh Sagpir. It takes the sonnet out of the confines of enclosed national traditions bringing it into renewed contact with mostly European, but also other, cultures.

Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004529276
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume combines for the first time the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature in a pioneering collection of essays by world-leading scholars on modern poetry from various cultural and linguistics backgrounds (Arabic, Chinese, creole, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Spanish).

Duino Elegies, Deluxe Edition

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782277862
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Duino Elegies, Deluxe Edition written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever English translation of Rilke’s landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West – reissued for the first time in 90 years In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the English debut of Rilke’s masterpiece, which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times, influencing countless poets, musicians and artists across the English-speaking world. Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests’ translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke’s poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature’s great masterpieces in fresh light.

Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060907274
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1981-04-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, Robert Bly, the National Book Award-winning poet, brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.

From the Elephant's Back

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772120596
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book From the Elephant's Back written by Lawrence Durrell and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare and previously unpublished essays and letters showcasing “Durrell’s wit, elegance, philosophy, joie de vivre and flaming intelligence” (The Irish Times). “The proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet.” ?Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century Modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries?aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these thirty-eight previously unpublished and out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell’s maturation as an artist was rich, complex, and subtle. Durrell fans will treasure this selection of rare nonfiction, while scholars of Durrell, Modernist literature, anti-authoritarian artists, and the Personalist movement will also appreciate Gifford’s fine editorial work. “Gifford's scholarly command of the archives shows?especially his working intimacy with the unpublished archived words of Durrell’s editors, publishers, and collaborators. I have no doubt that this collection will serve as a starting point for any number of new critical ventures into the life and writing of Lawrence Durrell.” ?Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504054695
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel memoirs “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in The Durrells in Corfu (Time). Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle, along with his brother, Gerald, who would also go on to be a writer and a naturalist. Their real-life family is portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in Corfu. Over the following decades, he rambled around the Mediterranean, making homes in Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece, always bringing his poet’s eye to document his experiences. Prospero’s Cell: Along with his family, Lawrence Durrell spent four youthful years on Corfu, an island jewel with beauty to match its fascinating history. While his brother, Gerald, was collecting animals as a budding naturalist, Lawrence fished, drank, and lived with the natives in the years leading up to World War II, sheltered from the tumult that was engulfing Europe—until finally he could ignore the world no longer. Durrell left for Alexandria, to serve his country as a wartime diplomat, but never forgot the wonders of Corfu, captured so beautifully in this “brilliant” memoir (The Economist). “In its gem-like miniature quality, [Prospero’s Cell] is among the best books ever written.” —The New York Times Reflections on a Marine Venus: After four tortuous wartime years in Egypt, Durrell finds a post on the island of Rhodes, where the British are attempting to return Greece to the sleepy peace it enjoyed in the 1930s. From a dip in the frigid Aegean Sea, which jolts him awake for what feels like the first time in years, Durrell breathes in the joys of island life, meeting villagers, eating exotic food, and throwing back endless bottles of ouzo. “Sparkles with . . . intense energy . . . brilliance and fire.” —The Christian Science Monitor Spirit of Place: In these letters and essays, Durrell exhibits the power of poetic observation that continues to make his travel writing so vivid and fresh. He traveled not to sightsee but to live, and made homes in the Mediterranean, Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, and Argentina. Each time he landed, he rooted himself deep into the native soil, taking in not just the sights and sounds of his new land, but the essential character of the country, which he brings to life in these pages. “The letters depict the brio of Durrell’s existence with intoxicating vividness.” —The New York Times

Spirit of Place

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453261613
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThe definitive collection of travel writings by one of the twentieth century’s best-loved journeyers/divDIV /divDIVFrom the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece, and spent the rest of his life wandering the world. He traveled not to sightsee but to live, and made homes in Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, and Argentina. Each time he landed, he rooted himself deep into the native soil, taking in not just the sights and sounds of his new land, but the essential character of the country./divDIV /divDIVIn these letters and essays, Durrell exhibits the power of poetic observation that made his travel writing so extraordinary to post–World War II readers. In these pages he reminds us not just of each country’s hidden charms, but of the unique characteristics that persist through the generations. /div/div

Rainer Maria Rilke

Author : F. W. van Heerikhuizen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000760146
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Rainer Maria Rilke written by F. W. van Heerikhuizen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in English in 1951, this biography of one of Germany’s foremost mystical poets dis-proves many of the myths surrounding Rainer Maria Rilke and examines his life and work from social, historical and psychological perspectives, while all the time referencing Rilke’s works to his complex personality. The legacy of his work on younger generations is also examined. All German prose quotations have been translated into English for this edition, existing translations used for the German poetry.

A History of Western Literature

Author : G. Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351535110
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Literature written by G. Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present, from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's.Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations, arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism, "A History of Western Literature" immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition, the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work.

The Essential Rilke

Author : Galway Kinnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060956542
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Rilke written by Galway Kinnell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and the depth and complexity of his poetry make it difficult for translators to preserve the beauty and meaning of the original text. In his stunning bilingual selection that includes the entire Duino Elegies as well as a number of favorite and less familiar shorter poems, Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann manage to retain power and grace of Rilke's words. Throughout his poetry, Rilke addresses questions of how to live in and relate to a world in a voice that is simultaneoulsy prophetic and intensely personel. These translations offer new insight into this enigmatic German poet whose work will continue to be read and admired throughout the world.

Poems from the Book of Hours

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811205955
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Poems from the Book of Hours written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rilke’s Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903). Although these poems were the work of Rilke’s youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, they celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe, but seems to be rather humanity itself, and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist. This exquisite gift edition contains Babette Deutsch’s classic translations, which capture the rich harmony and suggestive imagery of the originals, allowing interpretations both religious and philosophical, and transporting the reader to new heights of inspiration and musicality.