A Ringing Glass The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| Author:
| Prater, Donald |
| Series title: | Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815891-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1994 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
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This is a celebrated biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the greatest lyric poet of this century, whose works - the New Poems, the Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus - and in prose the Cornet and the astonishing Malte Laurids Brigge, have been of lasting significance for European literature. A compelling account of this most complex of lives, A Ringing Glass shows what manner of man laybehind the achievement of the work, and the part that work in turn played in Rilke's life.
This is a celebrated biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the greatest lyric poet of this century, whose works - the New Poems, the Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus - and in prose the Cornet and the astonishing Malte Laurids Brigge, have been of lasting significance for European literature. A compelling account of this most complex of lives, A Ringing Glass shows what manner of man laybehind the achievement of the work, and the part that work in turn played in Rilke's life.