Research Catalog

Title

Rilke on love and other difficulties. : Translations and considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke / [by] John J.L. Mood.

Author

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Publication

New York : Norton, [1975]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mood, John J. L.
• Dedalus Foundation, donor NN

Description

117 pages; 21 cm

Summary

This book was compiled by a Rilke lover for Rilke lovers. John Mood has chosen selections from Rilke and combined them with his own writings and commentary. Included are Rilke's letters on love; poems on love and other difficulties, translated by Mood; shorter selections from Rilke's work; and an essay by Mood. The letters on love present Rilke's exploration of the deepest levels of what love is. His working toward love at these depths was poetic, profound, and thoroughly radical. His language is sensual; his deep spirituality is rooted in the senses. The letters are of crucial importance for those who have passed from puritanism to promiscuity without ever having experienced genuine love. The love poems were written during the period of Rilke's most mature work. They are sensual and explicitly sexual-but they are also tough-minded. The poems reflect great passion and gentle care; his unique joining of the masculine and the feminine is profoundly portrayed. There is also a selection from Rilke's later poems, which many feel are his most significant works. All but a few have appeared in translation only once before. The poems deal with the fundamental difficulty of living-dying, though with greater subtlety, density, and depth than before. The book concludes with a passage from Rilke on the difficulty of writing poetry and of living life; a letter containing an affirmation of life; and Mood's essay on dying, based on Rilke's self-composed epitaph.--Adapted from book jacket.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. English & German. 1975

Alternative Title

Works. 1975

Subjects

• Essays
• Personal correspondence
• Poetry
• Translations
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Personal correspondence.
• Essays.
• Translations.

Note

• Selections from letters and essays in English; poems in English and German.

Terms of Use (note)

• British Library not licensed to copy

Source (note)

• of the Dedalus Foundation;

Contents

I. Prologue -- II. Letters of Love -- III. Poems of Love -- IV. Poems on Other Difficulties -- V. Blood-Remembering -- VI. The Dragon-Princess -- VII. The Difficulty of Dying: Rilke's Self-Composed Epitaph -- VIII. Epilogue.

Call Number

ReCAP 24-4653

ISBN

• 0393043908
• 9780393043907
• 0393044041
• 9780393044041
• 9780393310986
• 0393310981

LCCN

74006012

OCLC

867977

Author

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Title

Rilke on love and other difficulties. : Translations and considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke / [by] John J.L. Mood.

Imprint

New York : Norton, [1975]

Edition

[1st ed.].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Austrians

Men

Terms Of Use

British Library not licensed to copy 0. Uk

Local Note

Copy in ReCAP 24-4653 inscribed.

Source

Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN

Added Author

Mood, John J. L., editor.

Dedalus Foundation, donor NN

Research Call Number

ReCAP 24-4653

JFD 75-6451