Maria rainer rilke biography of william
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
“Rose, o pure contradiction, desire to be no one’s sova beneath so many lids”
Rilke’s self-composed epitaph, written before leukemia took his life December 29, 1926. It was the rose, a symbol of love, beauty, and devotion in much of Rilke’s writings, which ironically caused the onset of his illness that took his life so suddenly. Months before, Rilke had been gathering roses from his garden for a visitor, and while doing so, pricked his hand on a thorn. The small wound failed to heal and grew rapidly worse, leading to his tragic death at age 51. In his relatively short life, Rilke had produced a body of poetry and writings unsurpassed in its genius of emotion, insight, and sensuality. “It is my conviction that, by any measure, the two greatest writers of the twentieth-century are James Joyce (1882-1914) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)”[Mood 17]. Other scholars and poetry lovers would undoubtedly agree, a
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
"Rilke" redirects here. For other uses, see Rilke (disambiguation).
Rainer Maria Rilke | |
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| Born | René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (1875-12-04)4 December 1875 Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 29 December 1926(1926-12-29) (aged 51) Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist |
| Language | German, French |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Period | 1894–1925 |
| Literary movement | Modernism |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German:[ˈʁaɪnɐmaˈʁiːaˈʁɪlkə]ⓘ), was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.[1] His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and di
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Reading Rilke
Reflections on the Problems of Translation
By WILLIAM H. GASS
Knopf
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From "Lifeleading"
Open-eyed, Rainer Maria Rilke died in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926. The leukemia which killed him had been almost reluctantly diagnosed, and had struck like a storm, after a period of gathering clouds. Ulcerous sores appeared in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines, he slept a lot when his body let him, his spirit was weighed down by depression, while physically he became as thin and fluttery as a leaf. Since, according to the gloom that naturally descended on him, Rilke's creative life was over, he undertook translations during his last months: of Valery in particular — "Eupalinos," "The Cemetery by the Sea " — and composed his epitaph, too, invoking the flower he so devotedly tended.
rose, o pure contradiction, desire
to be no one's sleep beneath so many lids