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    Poems
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    Poems

    By Rainer Maria Rilke

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    Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated. Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It’s not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and best selling poets to this very day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateSep 21, 2021
    ISBN9781649741707
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    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest German-language writers to have ever lived. He is best known for his Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

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      Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke

      Poems

      Rainer Maria Rilke

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2021 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition.

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      ISBN 978-1-64974-170-7

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      FIRST POEMS

      EVENING

      MARY VIRGIN

      THE BOOK OF PICTURES

      PRESAGING

      AUTUMN

      SILENT HOUR

      THE ANGELS

      SOLITUDE

      KINGS IN LEGENDS

      THE KNIGHT

      THE BOY

      INITIATION

      THE NEIGHBOUR

      SONG OF THE STATUE

      MAIDENS I

      MAIDENS II

      THE BRIDE

      AUTUMNAL DAY

      MOONLIGHT NIGHT

      IN APRIL

      MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD

      DEATH

      THE ASHANTEE

      MUSIC

      MAIDEN MELANCHOLY

      MAIDENS AT CONFIRMATION

      THE WOMAN WHO LOVES

      PONT DU CARROUSEL

      MADNESS

      LAMENT

      SYMBOLS

      NEW POEMS

      EARLY APOLLO

      THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL

      THE POET

      THE PANTHER

      GROWING BLIND

      THE SPANISH DANCER

      OFFERING

      LOVE SONG

      ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO

      THE BOOK OF HOURS

      THE BOOK OF A MONK'S LIFE

      THE BOOK OF PILGRIMAGE

      THE BOOK OF POVERTY AND DEATH

      Introduction: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

      The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritual physiognomy, its ultimate and lasting expression.

      The process of Art is on the one hand sensuous, the conception having for its basis the fineness of organization of the senses; and on the other hand it is severely scientific, the value of the creation being dependent upon the craftsmanship, the mastery over the tool, the technique.

      Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all time to come, ever strives for elimination and selection. It is severe and aristocratic in the application of its laws and impervious to appeal to serve other than its own aims. Its purpose is the symbolization of Life. In its sanctum there reigns the silence of vast accomplishment, the serene, final, and imperturbable solitude which is the ultimate criterion of all great things created.

      To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and the most accurate instrument by which to measure Life.

      Poetry is reality’s essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the reaction to Life’s phenomena. The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into everlasting values. In this act of creation he serves eternity.

      Poetry, in especial lyrical poetry, must be acknowledged the supreme art, culminating as it does in a union of the other arts, the musical, the plastic, and the pictorial.

      The most eminent contemporary poets of Europe

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