New Poems A Revised Bilingual Edition

Name: New Poems A Revised Bilingual Edition
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ISBN: 9780865476127

ISBN-10: 0865476128

ISBN-13: 9780865476127

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow

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The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic. Paris was to change everything. Rilke's interest in Rodin deepened and his enthusiasm for the sculptor's "art of living surfaces" set the course for his own pursuit of an objective ideal. What was "new" about Rilke's New Poems, published in…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 12/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Preface
Early Apollo	p. 9
Love Song	p. 11
Eranna to Sappho	p. 13
Sappho to Eranna	p. 15
Sappho to Alcaeus	p. 17
Funeral Monument of a Young Girl	p. 21
Sacrifice	p. 23
Eastern Aubade	p. 25
Abishag	p. 27
David Sings Before Saul	p. 31
Joshua's Council	p. 35
The Departure of the Prodigal Son	p. 39
The Olive Garden	p. 41
The Song of the Women to the Poet	p. 45
Buddha	p. 47
L'Ange du Meridien	p. 49
The Cathedral	p. 51
The Rose Window	p. 53
The Capital	p. 55
Morgue	p. 57
The Prisoner	p. 59
The Panther	p. 63
The Gazelle	p. 65
The Unicorn	p. 67
Saint Sebastian	p. 69
The Donor	p. 71
The Angel	p. 73
Roman Sarcophagi	p. 75
The Swan	p. 77
The Poet	p. 79
A Woman's Fate	p. 81
The Convalescent	p. 83
The Grown-up	p. 85
Tanagra	p. 87
Going Blind	p. 89
In a Foreign Park	p. 91
Parting	p. 93
Death Experienced	p. 95
Blue Hydrangea	p. 97
Before the Summer Rain	p. 99
In the Drawing Room	p. 101
Last Evening	p. 103
Portrait of My Father as a Young Man	p. 105
Self-Portrait from the Year 1906	p. 107
The King	p. 109
The Last Count of Brederode Evades Turkish Captivity	p. 111
The Courtesan	p. 113
The Stairs of the Orangery	p. 115
Buddha	p. 117
Roman Fountain	p. 119
The Carousel	p. 121
Spanish Dancer	p. 123
The Tower	p. 127
The Square	p. 129
Quai du Rosaire	p. 131
The Island	p. 133
Tombs of the Hetaerae	p. 137
Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes	p. 141
Alcestis	p. 149
Birth of Venus	p. 155
The Bowl of Roses	p. 161
Archaic Torso of Apollo	p. 183
Cretan Artemis	p. 185
Leda	p. 187
The Island of the Sirens	p. 189
Lament for Antinous	p. 191
The Death of the Beloved	p. 193
A Prophet	p. 195
Jeremiah	p. 197
A Sybil	p. 199
The Last Judgment	p. 201
The Alchemist	p. 203
Crucifixion	p. 205
Adam	p. 207
Eve	p. 209
Lunatics in the Garden	p. 212
The Lunatics	p. 213
The Beggars	p. 215
Foreign Family	p. 217
Corpse-Washing	p. 219
One of the Old Ones	p. 221
The Blind Man	p. 223
Faded	p. 225
Communion	p. 227
The Site of the Fire	p. 229
The Group	p. 231
Snake-Charming	p. 233
Black Cat	p. 235
The Balcony	p. 237
Emigrant Ship	p. 239
Landscape	p. 241
Roman Campagna	p. 243
Song from the Sea	p. 245
Night Drive	p. 247
Parrot Park	p. 249
Portrait	p. 251
Venetian Morning	p. 253
Late Autumn in Venice	p. 255
San Marco	p. 257
A Doge	p. 259
The Lute	p. 261
Corrida	p. 263
Don Juan's Childhood	p. 265
Don Juan's Election	p. 267
Lady at a Balcony	p. 269
Encounter in the Chestnut Avenue	p. 271
Piano Practice	p. 273
Woman in Love	p. 273
The Rose Interior	p. 277
Lady Before Her Mirror	p. 279
The Sundial	p. 281
Opium Poppy	p. 283
The Flamingos	p. 285
Persian Heliotrope	p. 287
Lullaby	p. 289
The Pavilion	p. 291
Pink Hydrangea	p. 293
The Coat of Arms	p. 295
The Bachelor	p. 297
The Solitary	p. 299
The Reader	p. 301
The Apple Orchard	p. 303
Mohammed's Summoning	p. 305
The Mountain	p. 307
The Ball	p. 309
The Child	p. 311
The Dog	p. 313
The Beetle Stone	p. 315
Buddha in Glory	p. 317
Index of Titles and First Lines in German	p. 319
Index of Titles and First Lines in English	p. 325
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