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,
“... furiously, courted great men, travelled: to Russia, Egypt, Spain. One of the many pleasures of Ralph Freedman’s patient biography is the sight of Rainer and Lou, enormous Russophiles, visiting the disappointing country of their dream. The trip included what Freedman calls a ‘famous non-visit’ to ... ”