Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

by RainerMariaRilke (Author)

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  International Edition
  2001

  $12.22

  Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus , in which his most intense experiences of living and being find their noblest expression.