Name: Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Freedman, Ralph
ISBN: 9780810115439


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by Ralph Freedman Northwestern University Press, 1998 Paper: 978-0-8101-1543-9 Library of Congress Classification PT2635.I65Z7226 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 831.912 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK In this highly praised and extraordinary biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's luminous career by weaving together detailed accounts of pivotal and formative episodes from the poet's restless life with a close, intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them. This lively and engrossing biography offers much of interest to Rilke's growing body of followers. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Ralph Freedman, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University is also the author of Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim of Crisis. TABLE OF CONTENTS Book One: The Young Poet Part I. The Birth of a Poet 1. Beginnings 2. Early Engagements 3. The Young Writer Part II. The Poet's Awakening 4. New Vistas in Munich 5. The Lover's Disciple 6. Transformations Part III. Breakthrough 7. Departure: Two Women in White 8. Passing Through Eden 9. City of Grief: Anguish Among the Statues Part IV. Search and Renewal 10. The Muse Regained 11. Closing the Cycle 12. Return and Expulsion Book Two: The Master Part V. Radical Revisions 13. Toward a New Style 14. Death and the Prodigal 15. Malte's Way to the Angel 16. Angel and Lovers: The Early Elegies Part VI. Inner Landscapes 17. The Poet's Conversion 18. Dreams of Connection 19. The Prison of Europe 20. From Exile to Chaos Part VIII. The Magic of Orpheus 21. Privileged Refuge 22. The Vagaries of Love and the Language of Poetry 23. Orpheus Reborn: The Later Elegies 24. To Be Another: The Window to France 25. The Last Word Sources and Notes Acknowledgments Index REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled. See other books on: 1875-1926 \| Authors, German \| Poet \| Rainer Maria Rilke \| Rilke, Rainer Maria See other titles from Northwestern University Press

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