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Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1914-1921

Mary Dows Herter Norton

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These literary letters give the account of Rainer Maria 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 Great 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.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: May 17, 1964

ISBN: 0393001601

ISBN 13: 9780393001600

Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1914-1921

Mary Dows Herter Norton

4.2/5 ( ratings)

These literary letters give the account of Rainer Maria 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 Great 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.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: May 17, 1964

ISBN: 0393001601

ISBN 13: 9780393001600

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