Poems to Night
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Poems to Night
Narrated by:
Geraint Rhys
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Narrated by:
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Geraint Rhys
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Written by:
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Will Stone
In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought to represent one of the key stages in the creative breakthrough and spiritual evolution of the preeminent European poet of the twentieth century.
This translation was the first to bring all the poems together in English and is enhanced by the translator's valuable introduction and a rich selection of further poems Rilke dedicated to night at various stages of his life.
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Critic Reviews
'[A] gorgeous collection of odes to the night and darkness'
'An excellent introduction to Rilke in English, and Will Stone has executed his task with admirable aplomb'
'Rilke pushes language to the outer limits, trying to articulate what can scarcely be portrayed... that mysterious connection which floats between things like a soul' (Stefan Zweig)
'I've always felt that Rilke stands with one foot in the 19th century with the other firmly planted in the 21st' (Art Beck, Jacket Magazine)
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