His affairs with women were intense, literary and dominated by the word ‘soul’
Michael Wood, 22 August 1996
Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
by Ralph Freedman.
Farrar, Straus, 640 pp., $35, March 1996,0 374 18690 1 Show More
by Ralph Freedman.
Farrar, Straus, 640 pp., $35, March 1996,
Uncollected Poems
by Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow.
North Point Press/Farrar, Straus, 266 pp., $22, March 1996,0 86547 482 6 Show More
by Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow.
North Point Press/Farrar, Straus, 266 pp., $22, March 1996,
Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’: Cambridge Readings
edited by Roger Paulin and Peter Hutchinson.
Duckworth/Ariadne, 237 pp., £30, March 1996,1 57241 032 9 Show More
edited by Roger Paulin and Peter Hutchinson.
Duckworth/Ariadne, 237 pp., £30, March 1996,
“... We have all kinds of images of the modern poet, little mythologies made out of snatches of the life and work and reputation. The figure is hieratic and austere, like Mallarmé and Valéry, inward and intricate like Eliot and Pessoa, serenely eccentric like Marianne Moore, public and overflowing like Neruda and Pound. One of the strangest and most tantalising of these images is that of Yeats, both worldly and spiritualist, silly like us, as Auden said (sillier, some would say), and yet wonderfully hard-headed ... ”