Rainer Maria Rilke (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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The rich symbolic content and specific themes that characterize Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous lyrics also inform his narrative prose. Recollections of his boyhood and youth are given romantic, fairy-tale coloring in Vom lieben Gott und Anderes (1900; republished as Geschichten vom lieben Gott, 1904; Stories of God, 1931, 1963), a cycle of short tales that replace traditional Christian perceptions of God with depictions of a finically careful artist. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (1906; The Tale of the...
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