| Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Norton, M. D. Herter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0393001601 ISBN-13: 9780393001600 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1964 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5" W x 8" (0.69 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Norton, M. D. Herter: - M. D. Herter Norton is a publisher and translator. Together with her husband William Warder Norton, she founded the publishing company W. W. Norton & Company. Her work as translator includes the translation of works by Rainer Maria Rilke.Rilke, Rainer Maria: - RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and The Book of Hours. |