Neue Gedichte

Name: Neue Gedichte
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN: 9781787243392

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Series: World Classics
Language: German
Length: 72 pages
ISBN: 9781787243392
Published: 7 November 2017
Imprint: Sovereign

Rilke
Dinggedichte
Neue Gedichte
poetic objects
philosophical
existentialism
phenomenology
Bohemian
Poetry
lyrical

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Description

Neue Gedichte or New Poems is a collection of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke composed mostly in Paris and Meudon. These poems and sonnets, are often intensely focused on the visual. They show Rilke aware of the objective world and of the people amongst whom he lives. The poems are astonishingly concentrated, compacting a profundity of experience into small compass. He called them Dinggedichte, which means 'Thing-Poems', intending to reveal both that the poems were about 'things' and that the poems had become poetic objects themselves, so concentrated and whole. This edition is the original German language text of these poems.

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was an Austrian poet of inward intensity — Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and the novel of Malte Laurids Brigge. He wrote of angels, things, and the difficult work of seeing clearly. Rilke's German is musical and demanding; his letters and poems still teach readers how to live with questions rather than slogans. With 6 titles in our catalogue, he remains a voice for those who want poetry that thinks.

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