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Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025) · 1 h 21 min · 9 parts

  1. Introduction

    32:41

  2. First Poems

    1:36

  3. The Book of Pictures I

    9:04

  4. The Book of Pictures II

    9:43

  5. The Book of Pictures III

    10:37

  6. New Poems

    7:45

  7. The Book of a Monk's Life

    4:08

  8. The Book of Pilgrimage

    3:43

  9. The Book of Poverty and Death

    2:39

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Falling leaves, a knight in armour, and the hush before a storm become ways of thinking about solitude and mortality in Rainer Maria Rilke's verse. This 1918 volume presents English translations by Jessie Lemont, arranged in sections drawn from First Poems, The Book of Pictures, New Poems, and The Book of Hours. An opening essay discusses Rilke's poetry alongside painting and sculpture, offering a frame for his attention to visible things.

The poems repeatedly move between the outer world and private feeling. In Autumn, the descent of leaves widens into an image of the earth itself falling, while Solitude gives loneliness the movement of rain passing over a town. Other pieces turn to angels, legendary kings, and a boy imagining a wild ride through dark streets.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief.

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Reading time
About 45 minutes
Pages
36
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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Audio read by
Eva Davis (d. 2025)