Uncollected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Voyages, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Writing, Creative process, Sculpting or sculptors, Germany or German people
Two factors appear above all to have shaped the imagery of Rainer Maria Rilke’s verse: his many travels and his love of the visual arts. These experiences fed a mind and spirit uniquely sensitive to space, to distances and volume, and to relationships and correspondences between richly experienced external and deeply felt internal worlds. Born in Prague in 1875, the child of German- speaking parents, Rilke, by education and family tradition, seemed destined to find his place within the hierarchies of the Austro- Hungarian state. Yet after five unhappy years at a military academy...
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