Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0394716361 ISBN 13 : 9780394716367

Synopsis

Book by Mitchell Stephen Rilke Rainer Maria

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritual physiognomy, its ultimate and lasting expression. The process of Art is on the one hand sensuous, the conception having for its basis the fineness of organization of the senses; and on the other hand it is severely scientific, the value of the creation being dependent upon the craftsmanship, the mastery over the tool, the technique. Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all time to come, ever strives for elimination and selection. It is severe and aristocratic in the application of its laws and impervious to appeal to serve other than its own aims. Its purpose is the symbolization of Life. In its sanctum there reigns the silence of vast accomplishment, the serene, final, and imperturbable solitude which is the ultimate criterion of all great things created.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are Letters to a Young Poet and the semiautobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394716361
• ISBN 13: 9780394716367
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible