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Poems to Night (Pushkin Press Classics)
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This collection of haunting, mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke is the only English translation to bring them all togetherIn 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing 22 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 1st to bring all the poems together in English and is enhanced by the translators valuable introduction and a rich selection of further poems Rilke dedicated to night at various stages of his life, providing fascinating insight into Rilkes development.The poems recall all of the great poets important themes: death and longing, the troubling reconciliation of beauty and suffering, and a search for transcendance. These deep questions circle the imagery of night in Rilkes intensely lyrical style: darkness, the stars and the moon wheel through the verses, and the play of light and dark beomes an evocation of lifes duality. No other poet was as singularly devoted to beauty or as capable of gifting its consolations to the readera volume to cherish on stormy nights and peaceful ones.
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