New poems / Rainer Maria Rilke ; selected and translated by Edward Snow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Snow, Edward A.

Standardized Title:

Neue Gedichte. Selections. English & German

Language:

English

German

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 329 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition, revised bilingual edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : North Point Press, 2001.

Language Note:

Text in English and German.

Summary:

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 two independent volumes in 1907 and 1908, is a compression of statement and a movement away from "expression" and toward "making realities". Poems such as "The Panther" and "Archaic Torso of Apollo" are among the most successful and famous results of Rilke's impulse.

Notes:

Selections from two separate volumes originally published in German in 1907 and 1908 and in English in 1984 and 1987.

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0865476128

OCLC:

47183524