- German poetry, Translations into English, God, Poetry
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again.
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Contemplative, character-led, grave and earnest.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 111
- Publisher
- Vision, New Directions, Riverhead Books
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, English, Spanish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781594481567
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“The hour is striking so close above me,so clear and sharp, that all my senses ring with it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (* 4. Dezember 1875 in Prag, Österreich-Ungarn; † 29. Dezember 1926 im Sanatorium Valmont bei Montreux, Schweiz; eigentlich René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke) war ein österreichischer Lyriker deutscher und französischer Sprache. 1905 erschien sein Stundenbuch mit nachdenklichen, nicht selten religiösen Gedichten, wodurch er bald eine große Popularität erreichte. Die zumeist eingängigen, teils ekstatischen, teils melancholischen Verse prägten das Bild vom prophetischen Dichter Rilke nachhaltig. In seinem Buch der Bilder führte er seine Lyrik, die Reflexionen über Transzendenz und Existenz miteinschloss, fort und vollendete gerade in den Abschiedsgedichten den Ausdr
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