This book is the Everyman Pocket Library Poets collection of poems by the early-20th-century lovely lonely genius, Rainer M. Rilke (yes, the very same). Translated beautifully from their original German by Stephen Spender & J. B. Leishman, here are collected work from several of Rilke's own volumes and publications; six from The Book of Images, twelve from New Poems, his Requiem for a Friend, a small curation from between 1908 to 1926, a handful plus cut-outs from his longer pieces in the French poems, the whole series titled The Life of Mary, the whole Duino Elegies sequence, and a good 33 or so from his run of Sonnets to Orpheus.
Any efforts by myself to try to cram a disrespectfully brief outlining theme, content, etc with regard to all these is already redundant; even translated (which I must again mention as the retention of complex & subtle rhyming schemes can't be an easy thing to do) some of these have gotta be among the most emotional, colourful, nature-bound, reverent, thematically ambivalent and humanly spiritually comforting that I've read in recent times and it's made me want to devour his whole oeuvre.
Any efforts by myself to try to cram a disrespectfully brief outlining theme, content, etc with regard to all these is already redundant; even translated (which I must again mention as the retention of complex & subtle rhyming schemes can't be an easy thing to do) some of these have gotta be among the most emotional, colourful, nature-bound, reverent, thematically ambivalent and humanly spiritually comforting that I've read in recent times and it's made me want to devour his whole oeuvre.
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