Rainer Maria Rilke

Der junge d nische Adlige Malte Laurids Brigge kommt nach Paris, um Dichter zu werden. Die pulsierende Gro stadt und Kulturmetropole ist um 1900 eine berw ltigende Erfahrung voller Gegens tze und faszinierender Anreize. Rilke hat mit dieser Erz hlung das Paris-Bild von Generationen gepr gt. Meisterhaft ist seine Sprache und Modernit t, von mitrei ender Sch nheit, Tiefe und Poesie.

Wenn ein junger Kadett an einer Milit rschule schickt einige seiner Gedichte der gro en Dichter Rainer Maria Rilke, suche Beratung, beginnt er eine Reihe von Korrespondenz, in der Rilke dr ckt seine tiefste Einblicke in das Verh ltnis des K nstlers mit dem Leben, und die inneren Bed rfnisse der einzelne Person, auch einer, der nicht ein K nstler sein kann, der zur Reife w chst. In Rilkes fr he, k mpfen Jahren geschrieben, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter ist ein Werk der Sch nheit und Dringlichkeit. Seine Beratungen ber die Schwierigkeiten des jungen Dichters bei der Suche nach seiner Identit t und Berufung, in Rilkes Leben gespiegelt, haben mit Generationen von Lesern seit ber einem Jahrhundert in Resonanz, und es steht als einer der beliebtesten und am meisten gelesen S tze von Briefe in der Welt.

When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing towards maturity, and how the impulse to artistic creation can and should be a source of abiding and developing happiness even for those who cannot become artists. Written in Rilke's early, struggling years, Letters to a Young Poet is a work of beauty and urgency. Its discussion of the young soldier's difficulties in finding his identity and vocation, mirrored in Rilke's own life, have resonated with generations of readers for over a century, and it stands as one of the most beloved and widely read sets of letters in the world. This new translation by S ren Filipski is both accurate and fluid, capturing the intense, rhapsodic energy of Rilke's writing as well as the precision of his ideas.

"Essential for all poetry collections... Originally published in 1907 and 1908 in two volumes, the 200 poems contained in this bilingual single volume represent a period of intense creativity in the poet's career. Translator Joseph Cadora renders a beautiful new edition complete with commentary on each poem at the end, based on Rilke's letters, numerous biographies, and related works as well as an introduction outlining his approach to the translation.."--Library Journal, starred review" The] renderings of the canonical poems, such as "The Panther," "Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes," and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (to name a few), are worthwhile additions to the enormous body of Rilke's work already translated by others. Cadora's willingness to translate nearly two hundred poems is admirable, since many themes recur and develop."--Booklist "Through him resounds the music of the universe."--Herman Hesse Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral window. Translator Joseph Cadora has created the definitive English-language version through meticulous faithfulness to Rilke's German and insightful commentary on each of the four hundred-plus poems. As Cadora said in an interview, "I tried to stay true to the vision of Rilke that would invite the reader into his world, not mine." Bilingual, with an introduction by Robert Hass. The Panther: From endless passing of the bars his gazehas wearied--there is no more it can hold. There seem to be a thousand bars always, and past those thousand bars there is no world. The soft pad of his brawny, rippling paceturns itself in a tightening circle till, like a mighty dance around a tiny space, it centers a numb but still enormous will. But at times the shades of his pupils rise, grasping an image he cannot resist; through his tense, unmoving limbs it flies, and within his heart it ceases to exist. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the world's most beloved poets. Working at the cusp of the century, Rilke bridged the gap between traditional and modernist poetics. Born in Prague, Rilke traveled widely across Europe and Egypt, and lived for many years in Paris. Joseph Cadora is a guitarist, writer, and translator. He lives in Berkeley, California.

One of the twentieth century’s great originals, Rilke’s poetry stands beside the philosophy of Nietzsche and the sculpture of Rodin. These pages clearly reflect the development of his art from the early exploration of love and death, anguish and ecstasy, to the more precise poetry of his later period, acutely aware of a sense of alienated terror. This bilingual edition contains the full text of his Duino Elegies, complete with an appendix of fragments, alongside generous selections from The Sonnets to Orpheus and the earlier volumes of poetry. ‘Excellent . . . it is easy to feel that if Rilke had written in English, he would have written in this English’ New York Times Book Review