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Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles
of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real
world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions
of love and death, of the chaos of the modern world as well as the
spiritual consolation of art and nature. Change Your Life draws
from across Rilke's career to offer a comprehensive view of his
most essential poetry, featuring major selections from the great
Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus alongside less frequently
anthologised work. In these dazzling new translations by acclaimed
poet Martyn Crucefix, Rilke's poems beguile with fresh insight and
mystery.
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was already an old man when the young
poet Rainer Maria Rilke went to interview him for the first time.
Rilke stayed on to work as Rodin's secretary. Intensely sensitive
to art, and in particular to the irreducible power of objects, and
yet able to express this awareness in prose of great lyricism and
clarity, Rilke was destined to be the critic who would most
naturally dramatise Rodin's work. In 1903 Rilke published this
essay, a sustained and profound meditation on the unique power of
Rodin's sculpture that has never been equalled. Written around a
chronology of Rodin's work, it is also a very approachable
introduction to some of the greatest sculpture of the nineteenth
century.
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When I Go (Hardcover)
Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Susanne Petermann; Foreword by David H. Rosen
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R973
Discovery Miles 9 730
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Cat Poems (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, …
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R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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You Know How a Cat
will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your
feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that
I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute
to your beauty &
a promise of my love.
-James Laughlin
Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally
published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools
the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and
poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the
city and its outcasts, muses on his family history, and lays bare
his earliest experiences of fear, tenderness, and desolation. With
a poet’s feel for language and a keen instinct for storytelling,
Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly fractured coming-of-age
narrative, kaleidoscopic in its alternation of vivid present
encounters and equally alive memories of childhood. Strikingly
contemporary, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge reveals a
writer metabolizing his own experiences to yield still-essential
questions about fiction and reality, empathy and psychosis,
and—above all—life, love, and death. In a fascinating
introduction, award-winning translator Edward Snow explores the
overlaps between Rilke’s experiences and those of his
protagonist, and shows with granular attention the novel’s
capacity for nuance and sympathy. Snow’s exquisite translation
captures as never before the astonishing cadences and musical
clarity of the poet’s prose. It reveals The Notebooks of Malte
Laurids Brigge as an urgent contemporary achievement, more than one
hundred years after it was written.
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