Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria RilkeIn this highly praised and extraordinary biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's luminous career by weaving together detailed accounts of pivotal and formative episodes from the poet's restless life with a close, intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them. This lively and engrossing biography offers much of interest to Rilke's growing body of followers. |
Contents
Early Engagements | 21 |
New Vistas in Munich | 53 |
The Lovers Disciple | 72 |
Two Women in White | 123 |
Passing Through Eden | 141 |
The Muse Regained | 183 |
Closing the Cycle | 203 |
Toward a New Style | 253 |
Dreams of Connection | 361 |
The Prison of Europe | 379 |
From Exile to Chaos | 405 |
Privileged Refuge | 433 |
The Vagaries of Love and the Language of Poetry | 454 |
The Later Elegies | 480 |
The Window to France | 502 |
The Last Word | 530 |
Death and the Prodigal | 272 |
Maltes Way to the Angel | 294 |
The Early Elegies | 317 |
The Poets Conversion | 337 |
Sources and Notes | 555 |
Acknowledgments | 621 |
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