EAN: 9781805333135

RILKE RAINER MARIA POEMS TO NIGHT

This collection of haunting  mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke is the
only English translation to bring them all together In 1916  Rainer Maria Rilke presented his
friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook  containing 22 poems meticulously inscribed in his own
hand and bearing the title Poems to Night . This evocative sequence of poems  which echoes some
of the great themes of German romanticism  is now thought to represent one of the key stages in
the creative breakthrough and spiritual evolution of the preeminent European poet of the
twentieth century. This translation was the 1st to bring all the poems together in English and
is enhanced by the translator's valuable introduction and a rich selection of further poems
Rilke dedicated to night at various stages of his life  providing fascinating insight into
Rilke's development. The poems recall all of the great poet's important themes: death and
longing  the troubling reconciliation of beauty and suffering  and a search for transcendance.
These deep questions circle the imagery of night in Rilke's intensely lyrical style: darkness 
the stars and the moon wheel through the verses  and the play of light and dark beomes an
evocation of life's duality. No other poet was as singularly devoted to beauty or as capable of
gifting its consolations to the reader--a volume to cherish on stormy nights and peaceful ones.

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