The cambridge companion to rilke

the cambridge companion to rilke Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of modernist anxiety, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rilke’s critical contexts are explored in detail: his relationship with philosophy and the visual arts; his place within modernism and his relationship to European literature; and his reception in Europe and beyond With its invaluable guide to further reading and a chronology of Rilke’s life and work, this Companion will provide an accessible, engaging account of this extraordinary poet, his enduring legacy and far-reaching influence K a r e n L e e d e r is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College R o b e r t V i l a i n is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO RILKE EDITED BY KAREN LEEDER and ROBERT VILAIN Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao ˜ Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521705080 © Cambridge University Press 2010 This publication is in copyright Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press First published 2010 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge companion to Rilke / edited by Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain p cm – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes index isbn 978-0-521-87943-9 Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875–1926 – Criticism and interpretation I Leeder, Karen J II Vilain, Robert III Title IV Series pt2635.i65z654 2009 831 912 – dc22 2009040947 isbn 978-0-521-87943-9 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-70508-0 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 CONTENTS Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Chronology Abbreviations, references and translations page vii viii xi xviii Introduction karen leeder and robert vilain part i life I Rilke: a biographical exploration r uă d i g e r g oă r n e r The status of the correspondence in Rilke’s work ulrich baer 27 part ii works Early poems charlie louth 41 The New Poems william waters 59 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge andreas huyssen 74 The Duino Elegies kathleen l komar 80 The Sonnets to Orpheus thomas martinec 95 v Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 contents part iii cultural contexts, influences, reception Rilke and modernism andreas kramer 113 Rilke the reader robert vilain 131 10 Rilke and the visual arts helen bridge 145 11 Rilke: thought and mysticism paul bishop 159 12 Rilke and his philosophical critics anthony phelan 174 13 Rilke’s legacy in the English-speaking world karen leeder 189 Appendix: Poem titles Guide to further reading Index Index of works vi Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 206 213 219 224 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors would like to acknowledge the assistance of the staff of the Taylor Institution Library in Oxford, and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach am Neckar Research for this volume was made possible by the generosity of New College, Oxford, and Royal Holloway, University of London We are deeply indebted to all our contributors whose enthusiasm for and commitment to the volume have made it a truly collaborative endeavour We are also grateful to Lara Elder for editorial assistance in the early stages and to Maartje Scheltens and Linda Bree from Cambridge University Press for their patience and careful advice The editors would like to acknowledge the kind permission of the following to cite Rilke’s poems in translation: excerpt from ‘The Swan’ from New Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria Rilke, a bilingual edition translated by Edward Snow Translation © by Edward Snow, reprinted by permission of North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux; various of The Sonnets to Orpheus from Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ with ‘Letters to a Young Poet’, trans Stephen Cohn (Manchester: Carcanet, 2000) and ‘The Tower’, in Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems, trans Stephen Cohn (Manchester: Carcanet, 1992) © Carcanet Press Ltd The editors are also grateful for kind permission to cite the following original poems: Tom Paulin, ‘The Swan’, in Tom Paulin, The Road to Inver: Translations, Versions, Imitations, 1975–2003 (London: Faber and Faber, 2004) © Faber and Faber; Don Paterson, ‘Anemone’, in Don Paterson, Orpheus A Version of Rilke’s ‘Die Sonette an Orpheus’ (London: Faber and Faber, 2006) © Faber and Faber; Jo Shapcott, ‘Dinner with Rilke’, in Jo Shapcott, Tender Taxes (London: Faber and Faber, 2001) © Faber and Faber; Robin Robertson and Pan Macmillan for ‘Fall’ in Robin Robertson, Slow Air (London: Picador, 2002) © Robin Robertson 2002 vii Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS u l r i c h b a e r is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Vice Provost for Globalization and Multicultural Affairs at New York University He is the author of Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan (2000), Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma (2002) and Das Rilke-Alphabet (2006); editor of 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (2002); editor and translator of The Poet’s Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke (2005) p a u l b i s h o p is Professor of German at the University of Glasgow His research interests include all aspects of European modernism, with a particular emphasis on the history of psychoanalysis and its relationship to literature He has published on a variety of figures, including Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, C G Jung, Ludwig Klages, Thomas Mann and Rilke h e l e n b r i d g e is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Exeter Her publications include Women’s Writing and Historiography in the GDR (2002) and articles on Rilke and on GDR literature She is currently working on a study of Rilke and visual art r uă d i g e r g oă r n e r is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary, University of Lonă don Monographs since 2000 include: Nietzsches Kunst: Annaherungen an einen ă ă Denkartisten (2000); Grenzen, Schwellen, Ubergange: Zur Poetik des Transitorischen (2001); Rainer Maria Rilke – Im Herzwerk der Sprache (2004); Thomas Mann – Der Zauber des Letzten (2005); Das Zeitalter des Fraktalen: Ein kulturkriă ă ¨ tischer Versuch (2007); Wenn Gotzen dammern: Formen asthetischen Denkens bei Nietzsche (2008) a n d r e a s h u y s s e n is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University He was founding director of Columbia’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society (1998–2003) and one of the founding editors of New German Critique (since 1974) His books include Drama des Sturm und viii Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 notes on contributors Drang (1980), After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (1986), Postmoderne – Zeichen eines kulturellen Wandels, co-edited with Klaus Scherpe (1986), Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995) and Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (2003) Editor of Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age (2008) His work has been translated into many languages a n d r e a s k r a m e r is Reader in German and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London His research interests include early twentiethcentury German literature, in particular its international contexts; the European avant-garde; and literature and film He has published widely on these topics and his most recent book is Regionalismus und Moderne: Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 1900–1933 (2006) k a t h l e e n l k o m a r is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of California at Los Angeles She has published on a variety of topics from Romanticism to the present in American and German literature, including on authors such as Hermann Broch, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Doblin, Christa Wolf ă and Ingeborg Bachmann, among others Her books include Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation (2003), Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Duino Elegies” (1987), Pattern and Chaos: Multilinear Novels by Dos Passos, ă Faulkner, Doblin, and Koeppen (1983) and the collection Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations, co-edited with Ross Shideler (1998) She was elected President of the American Comparative Literature Association 2005–7 k a r e n l e e d e r is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford She has published widely on modern German literature, especially poetry, and has translated work by a number of German writers into English: most recently: After Brecht: A Celebration (2006) An edited volume, Schaltstelle Neue deutsche Lyrik im Dialog, appeared in 2007 as did a special edition of German Life and Letters: ‘Flaschenpost’: German Poetry and the Long Twentieth Century A collection of essays, The New German Poetry, is due out in 2009 as is the volume, edited with ă Robert Vilain, Nach Duino: Studien zu Rainer Maria Rilkes spaten Gedichten (2009) c h a r l i e l o u t h is Lecturer in German at Oxford University and a Fellow of The ă Queens College He has published Holderlin and the Dynamics of Translation (1998), as well as essays on German poetry from Goethe to Celan t h o m a s m a r t i n e c read German, English and Philosophy in Mainz and New York (NYU) After he finished his PhD with a book on Lessing’s theory of tragedy’s effect (2003), he became DAAD-Fellow in German Studies at Lincoln College, ix Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 notes on contributors Oxford He is now Lecturer in German Literature at the University of Regensburg, where he is working on a book on modernist poetry and music a n t h o n y p h e l a n is Fellow of Keble College and Professor of German Romantic Literature at Oxford He has published a student guide to Rilke’s Neue Gedichte and edited The Weimar Dilemma: Intellectuals in the Weimar Republic; Reading Heinrich Heine appeared in 2007 His main area of interest is the relation between philosophical critique and literature in modernity: Jena aesthetics and German Romantic fiction provide one current focus, the relationship between Walter Benjamin and Brecht another r o b e r t v i l a i n is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Lecturer in German at Christ Church, Oxford He specialises in German, Austrian, French and Comparative Literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a special interest in lyric poetry He has published widely on authors such as Hofmannsthal, George, Rilke, Yvan and Claire Goll, Thomas Mann, on Franco-German literary relations, detective fiction and the relationship of literature and music He has been joint editor of the journal Austrian Studies since 2003 w i l l i a m w a t e r s is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature and Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Boston University He is the author of Poetry’s Touch: On Lyric Address (2003) x Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:47:41 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.017 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 appendix ‘Perlen entrollen’ ‘Quai du Rosaire Requiem Requiem fur ă eine Freundin Requiem fur ¨ Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth’ ‘Reste tranquille si soudain’ ‘Romische Fontane ă ă Romische Sarkophage ă Schrein, schrein! Schwarze Katze ‘Seele im Raum’ ‘Selbstbildnis aus dem Jahre 1906’ ‘Senke dich, du langsames Serale’ ‘Sieben Gedichte’ ‘Sieh, Gott, es kommt ein Neuer an dir bauen Solang du Selbstgeworfenes fangst ă Spatherbst in Venedig ă Spaziergang Stimmen Stimmung im Barkenhoff Sturm Tanagra Tranen, Tranen, die aus mir ă ă brechen Trotzdem Und doch, obwohl ein jeder’ ‘Und wenn ich rastend dir die Hande gebe ă Venedig Venezianischer Morgen Vorfruhling ă Was wirst du tun, Gott, wenn ich sterbe’ ‘Wendung’ ‘Wenn ich manchmal in meinem Sinn’ ‘Wie die Natur die Wesen uberl aßt ¨ ¨ ’ ‘Wunsch’ ‘Pearls roll away’ ‘Quai du Rosaire’ ‘Requiem’ ‘Requiem for a Friend’ ‘Requiem for Wolf Count of Kalckreuth’ ‘Stay calm if suddenly’ ‘Roman Fountain’ ‘Roman Sarcophagi’ ‘Cry out, cry out!’ ‘Black Cat’ ‘Soul in Space’ ‘Self-Portrait 1906’ ‘Sink down, you slow Serale’ ‘Seven Poems’ ‘See, God, another comes to build on you’ ‘So long as you catch the things you throw yourself’ ‘Late Autumn in Venice’ ‘A Walk’ ‘Voices’ ‘Atmosphere in the Barkenhoff’ ‘Storm’ ‘Tanagra’ ‘Tears, tears breaking out of me’ ‘Nevertheless’ ‘And yet, although each one of us’ ‘And when I give you my hands in rest’ ‘Venice’ ‘Venetian Morning’ ‘Early Spring’ ‘What will you do, God, when I die’ ‘Turning-Point’ ‘When I sometimes in my mind’ ‘Just as nature leaves its creatures .’ ‘Wish’ 212 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:53:43 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.015 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 GUIDE TO FURTHER READING Works used throughout this volume Baron, Frank, Ernst S Dick, and Warren R Maurer (eds.) Rilke: The Alchemy of Alienation Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1980 Bauschinger, Sigrid and Susan L Cocalis (eds.) Rilke-Rezeptionen: Rilke Reconsidered Tubingen and Basel: Francke, 1995 ă Demetz, Peter, Joachim W Storck and Hans Dieter Zimmermann (eds.) Rilke: Ein ¨ europaischer Dichter aus Prag Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1998 ¨ ¨ Eckel, Winfried Wendung: Zum Prozess der Poetischen Reflexion im Werk Rilkes Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1994 ă ă Engel, Manfred and Dieter Lamping (eds.) Rilke und die Weltliteratur Dusseldorf ă and Zurich: Artemis & Winkler, 1999 ă Engel, Manfred (ed.) Rilke-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler, 2004 Gorner, Rudiger (ed.) Rainer Maria Rilke Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgeă ă sellschaft, 1987 Hamburger, Kate ă Rilke in neuer Sicht Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1971 Heep, Hartmut Unreading Rilke: Unorthodox Approaches to a Cultural Myth New York: Peter Lang, 2001 Metzger, Erika A and Michael M Metzger (eds.) A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke Rochester: Camden House, 2001 Mason, Eudo C Rilke Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1963 Ryan, Judith Umschlag und Verwandlung: Struktur und Dichtungstheorie in R M Rilkes Lyrik Munich: Winkler, 1972 Schnack, Ingeborg Rainer Maria Rilke: Chronik seines Lebens und seines Werkes vols Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1975 Solbrig, Ingeborg H and Joachim Storck (eds.) Rilke heute: Beziehungen und Wirkungen, vols Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1975–6 Stahl, August Rilke-Kommentar zum lyrischen Werk Munich: Winkler, 1978 Stevens, Adrian and Fred Wagner (eds.) Rilke und die Moderne: Londoner Symposion Munich: iudicium, 2000 Biography Freedman, Ralph Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996; and the extended and much improved German version of 213 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:54:04 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.016 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 guide to further reading Freedman’s biography, Rainer Maria Rilke: Der junge Dichter (1875–1906) and Der Meister (1906–1926), trans Curdin Ebneter and Vera Hauschild Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig: Insel, 2001–3 Gorner, Rudiger and Duncan Large (eds.) Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20 Jahrhundert ă ă Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003 ¨ Hillebrand, Bruno (ed.) Nietzsche und die deutsche Literatur, i: Texte zur Rezeptionsgeschichte 1873–1963 and ii: Forschungsergebnisse Tubingen and Munich: ¨ Niemeyer, 1978 Holthusen, Hans E Portrait of Rilke: An Illustrated Biography, trans W H Hargreaves New York: Herder and Herder, 1971 Leppmann, Wolfgang Rilke: A Life, trans Russell M Stockman; verse trans by Richard Exner Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1984 Prater, Donald A A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986 Salis, Jean Rodolphe de Rainer Maria Rilke: The Years in Switzerland: A Contribution to the Biography of Rilke’s Later Life, trans N K Cruickshank London: Hogarth, 1964 Steiner, Jakob (ed.) Rainer Maria Rilke und die Schweiz Zurich: Akademie-Verlag, 1992 Torgersen, Paul Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998 Rilke as a correspondent Blankenagel, John C ‘Rainer Maria Rilke’s Striving for Inner Harmony’ Germanic Review, 11 (1936), 109–21 Schoolfield, George C ‘Rainer Maria Rilke and Ellen Key: A Review Essay’ Scandinavian Studies, 68 (1996), 490–500 Early poems Brodsky, Patricia Pollock Russia in the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984 Hutchinson, Ben Rilke’s Poetics of Becoming Oxford: Legenda, 2006 Rolleston, James Rilke in Transition: An Exploration of his Earliest Poetry New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1970 New Poems Boa, Elizabeth, ‘Asking the Thing for the Form in Rilke’s Neue Gedichte’ German Life and Letters, 27 (1973/4), 285–94 Phelan, Anthony Rilke: Neue Gedichte Critical Guides to German Texts, 14 London: Grant and Cutler, 1992 Sheppard, Richard W ‘From the “Neue Gedichte” to the “Duineser Elegien”: Rilke’s Chandos-Crisis’ Modern Language Review, 68 (1973) 577–92 Smith, P C ‘Elements of Rilke’s Creativity’ Oxford German Studies, (1967) 129–48 214 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:54:04 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.016 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 guide to further reading Stewart, Corbet ‘Rilke’s Neue Gedichte: The Isolation of the Image’ Publications of the English Goethe Society, 48 (1978), 81–103 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Huyssen, Andreas ‘Paris/Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge’, in Andreas Huyssen and David Bathrick (eds.) Modernity and the Text: Revisions of German Modernism New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, pp 113–41 Kittler, Friedrich Discourse Networks 1800/1900 Stanford University Press, 1990, pp 315–36 Kleinbard, David The Beginning of Terror: A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Life and Work New York University Press, 1993 Duino Elegies Boney, Elaine ‘Structural Patterns in Rilke’s Duineser Elegien’ Modern Austrian Literature, 15 (1982), 71–90 Guardini, Romano Rainer Maria Rilkes Deutung des Daseins: Eine Interpretation der Duineser Elegien Munich: Kosel-Verlag, 1953 ă Komar, Kathleen L Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’ Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987 Paulin, Roger and Peter Hutchinson (eds.) Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’: Cambridge Readings London: Duckworth, 1996 The Sonnets to Orpheus Casey, Timothy J A Reader’s Guide to Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus Galway: Arlen House, 2001 Kellenter, Sigrid Das Sonett bei Rilke Frankfurt: Lang, 1982 Gerok-Reiter, Annette Wink und Wandlung: Komposition und Poetik in Rilkes ‘Sonette an Orpheus’ Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1996 ¨ Peucker, Brigitte ‘The Poetry of Transformation: Rilke’s Orpheus and the Fruit of Death’, in Lyric Descent in the German Romantic Tradition New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, pp 119–65 Stahl, E L ‘Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus: Composition and Thematic Structure’ Oxford German Studies, (1978), 119–35 Strauss, Walter A Descent and Return: The Orphic Theme in Modern Literature Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 1971 Yates, Edgar W Tradition in the German Sonnet Bern: Lang, 1981 Rilke and modernism Hauschild, Vera (ed.) Rilke heute: Der Ort des Dichters in der Moderne Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997 Klieneberger, H R ‘Romanticism and Modernism in Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge’ Modern Language Review 74, (1979), 360–7 215 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:54:04 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.016 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 guide to further reading Nicholls, Peter Modernisms: A Literary Guide Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1995 Ryan, Judith The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism University of Chicago Press, 1991 Ryan, Judith Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition Cambridge University Press, 1999 Sheppard, Richard W Modernism – Dada – Postmodernism Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000 Rilke the reader Batterby, K A J Rilke and France: A Study in Poetic Development Oxford University Press, 1966 ¨ Fulleborn, Ulrich ‘Rilkes schwedische Gedichte’ Blatter der Rilke-Gesellschaft, ¨ 17/18 (1989/90), 156–66 Jephcott, E F N Proust and Rilke: The Literature of Expanded Consciousness London: Chatto and Windus, 1972 Mason, Eudo C Rilke und Goethe Cologne: Bohlau, 1958 ă ¨ Nalewski, Horst Rainer Maria Rilke: Reise nach Agypten: Briefe, Gedichte, Notizen Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig: Insel, 2000 ă Singer, Herbert Rilke und Holderlin Cologne: Bohlau, 1957 ă Tavis, Anna A Rilke’s Russia: A Cultural Encounter Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1994 Rilke and the visual arts Baron, Frank (ed.) Rilke and the Visual Arts Lawrence, ks: Coronado, 1982 Bridge, Helen ‘Rilke and the Modern Portrait’ Modern Language Review, 99 (2004), 694–708 Bridge, Helen ‘Rilke’s Neue Gedichte and the Visual Arts’, in Critical Exchange: European Art Criticism of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed Carol Adlam and Juliet Simpson Oxford: Lang, 2008, pp 341–58 Bridgwater, Patrick ‘Rilke and the Modern Way of Seeing, in Rilke und der Wandel ă ed Herbert Herzmann and Hugh Ridley Essen: Die Blaue in der Sensibilitat, Eule, 1990, pp 19–41 Herzogenrath, Wulf and Andreas Kreul (eds.) Rilke Worpswede: Eine Ausstellung ă als Phantasie uber ein Buch Bremen: Hauschild, 2003 Pettit, Richard ‘The Poet’s Eye for the Arts: Rilke Views the Visual Arts around 1900’, in Imagining Modern German Culture: 1889–1910, ed Franc¸oise Forster-Hahn Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1996, pp 251–73 Stahl, August ‘Rilke und Richard Muther: Ein Beitrag zur Bildungsgeschichte des Dichters’, in Ideengeschichte und Kunstwissenschaft: Philosophie und bildende Kunst im Kaiserreich, ed Ekkehard Mai, Stephan Waetzoldt and Gerd Wolandt Berlin: Mann, 1983, pp 223–51 Wilkens, Manja ‘Etappen einer Genieasthetik: Lebensstationen und Kunsterfahrună gen Rilkes, in Rainer Maria Rilke und die bildende Kunst seiner Zeit, ed Gisela 216 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:54:04 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.016 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 guide to further reading Gotte and Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Munich and New York: Prestel, 1996, ă pp 929 Rilke: thought and mysticism Detsch, Richard Rilke’s Connections to Nietzsche Lanham, MD, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 2003 Gadamer, Hans-Georg ‘Poetry and Punctuation’, ‘Rainer Maria Rilke’s Interpretation of Existence: On the Book by Romano Guardini’, ‘Mythopoietic Reversal in Rilke’s Duino Elegies,’ in Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue: Essays in German Literary Theory, trans and ed Robert H Paslick Albany, ny: State University of New York Press, 1994 Gray, Ronald D ‘Rilke’s Poetry’ and ‘Rilke and Mysticism’, in The German Tradition in Literature, 1871–1945 Cambridge University Press, 1965 Heller, Erich ‘Rilke and Nietzsche, with a Discourse on Thought, Belief, and Poetry’, in The Disinherited Mind Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961, pp 109–55 Smith, P C ‘A Poem of Rilke: Evidence for the Later Heidegger’, Philosophy Today, 21/3–4 (1977), 250–62 Smith, P C ‘Heidegger’s Misinterpretation of Rilke’, Philosophy and Literature, (1979), 3–19 Rilke and his philosophical critics Blanchot, Maurice L’Espace litt´eraire Paris, Gallimard, 1968; The Space of Literature, trans Ann Stock Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982 De Man, Paul ‘Tropes Rilke’, in Allegories of Reading New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979, pp 28–56 Foti, ´ V´eronique Heidegger and the Poets New Jersey and London: Humanities Press, 1992 Haar, Michel The Song of the Earth, trans Reginald Lilly Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993 Heidegger, Martin ‘Wozu Dichter?’ in Holzwege Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2003, pp 269–320; Off the Beaten Track, trans and ed Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 200–41 Santner, Eric On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006 Rilke’s legacy in the English-speaking world Benfey, Christoph ‘Rilke in America: How and Why the Work of the Rootless Poet Found Such a Welcome Home Here’ The New Republic, 31 (3 January 1994), 31–6 Enright, D J ‘Reluctant Admiration A Note on Auden and Rilke’, in The Apothecary’s Shop: Essays on Literature London: Secker & Warburg, 1957, pp 187– 205 Heep, Hartmut A Different Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke’s American Translators Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Robert Bly New York: Lang, 1996 217 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:54:04 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.016 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 guide to further reading McCarthy, Patricia (ed.) A Reconsideration of Rainer Maria Rilke Agenda, 42/3–4 (2007) Mason, Eudo C Rilke, Europe, and the English-Speaking World Cambridge University Press, 1961 Morse, B J ‘Contemporary English Poets and Rilke’ German Life and Letters, (1947/8), 272–85 Robertson, Ritchie ‘Edwin Muir and Rilke’ German Life and Letters 36/1–2 (1982/3), 317–28 218 Cambridge Collections Online ©byCambridge Press, 2010 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online IP 149.43.20.9University on Wed Feb 13 22:54:04 WET 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521879439.016 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 INDEX Adorno, Theodor W., 114 Agamben, Giorgio, Akhmatova, Anna, 136 Alcoforado, Marianna, 86 Allemann, Beda, 109 Allen, Woody, Am Ende, Hans, 13, 148 Amenophis IV-Akhenaten, Pharaoh, 138 Andreas, Friedrich Carl, 13 Andreas-Salom´e, Lou, 12, 13, 23, 29, 34, 46–7, 49, 50, 51, 58, 72, 80, 135, 142, 146, 151, 160, 161, 164, 165, 172 Angela of Foligno, 162 Angelloz, Joseph-Francois, 160, 164, 171 Angelus Silesius., 170 Arnim, Bettina von, 15, 134 Auden, Wystan Hugh, 4, 80, 191, 192–3, 195 Bach, Johann Sebastian, Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 164 Bahr, Hermann, 145 Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 159, 164 Balzac, Honor´e de, 142 Bang, Hermann, 137, 138 Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 2, 15, 141, 190 Bataille, Georges, 163 Baudelaire, Charles, 15, 17, 35, 54, 55, 75–6, 80, 124, 135, 141, 142–3, 149, 154 Bayley, John, 189 Becker, Paula, 14, 103, 146, 147, 148, 150 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 9, 122 Benjamin, Walter, 76–7, 114, 116, 121, 123, 164 Benn, Gottfried, 10, 79 Bergner, Elisabeth, 24 Bergson, Henri, 160, 163, 164, 171 Berryman, John, 195 Bierbaum, Otto Julius, 133 Birtwistle, Harrison, Bissing, Friedrich Wilhlem Freiherr von, 138 Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 137 Blanchot, Maurice, 4, 159, 174, 181–5 Blok, Aleksandr, 136 Bloom, Harold, 203 Bluher, Hans, 19 ¨ Bly, Robert, 195–6, 197–8 Bodlander, Rudolf, 166 Bodmann, Emanuel von, 133 Bocklin, Arnold, 145, 147, 149 ă Bollnow, Otto F., 159 Borch, Maria von, 132 Borchardt, Rudolf, 145 Borges, Jorge Luis, 203 Brecht, Bertolt, 168 Brecht, Franz Josef, 159 Brentano, Clemens von, 182 Breughel, Pieter, 24 Bridge, Helen, 73 Brockes, Bartold, 168 Browning, Robert, 67, 141 Bruen, Ken, Bulow, Frieda von, 58 ă Bunin, Iwan, 24 Cassou, Jean, 24 Catherine of Siena, 162 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 139 C´ezanne, Paul, 2, 9, 15, 65, 120, 124, 143, 145, 153–6, 157 Chekhov, Anton, 135, 136 Church, Richard, 194 Cocteau, Jean, 24 Conegliano, Giovanni Battista Cima da, 22, 99 219 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:34 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 index Corot, Jean-Baptiste, 147 Crucefix, Martyn, 199 D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 140 Dante Alighieri, 17, 140 Daubigny, Charles-Franc¸ois, 147 David-Rhonfeld, Valerie von, 11 Day-Lewis, Cecil, 192 De Man, Paul, 4, 174, 185–7 Dehmel, Richard, 10, 132 Delacroix, Eugene, 14 Delp, Ellen, 126 Democritus, 170 Deubel, Werner, 164 Domin, Hilde, 189 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 85, 136 Doty, Mark, 200 Drozhzhin, Spiridon Dimitrievich, 13, 136 Du Bos, Charles, 24 Dvoˇrak, ´ Anton´ın, 10 Eichendorf, Josef Freiherr von, 42, 58 Einstein, Albert, 80, 81 Eisner, Kurt, 20 El Greco, 17 Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1, 3, 81, 192, 195 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 58 Engel, Manfred, Erdmann, Ilse, 160 Euripides, 135 Fet, Afanasy, 136 Fischer, Samuel, 133 Flammarion, Camille, 162 Flaubert, Gustave, 142 Fontane, Theodor, 133 Frank, Simon, 162 Frenssen, Gustav, 117 Freud, Sigmund, 2, 18, 769, 81, 165 Fulleborn, Ulrich, 109 ă Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 159 Gallarati-Scotti, Aurelia, 19 Geijerstam, Gustav af, 138 George, Stefan, 10, 44, 52, 58, 62, 115, 132 Ghosh, Amitav, 4, 80 Gide, Andr´e, 24 Giraudoux, Jean, 24 Gorner, Rudiger, 132 ă ă Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 9, 42, 108, 133–4, 139, 140, 161, 168, 170, 189 Gogol, Nikolai, 136 Goll, Yvan, 24 Goll, Claire, see Studer-Goll, Goncharov, Ivan, 136 Goncourt, Brothers, 141 Gray, Ronald, 163 Griboedov, Aleksandr, 136 Grimm, Brothers, Grunbein, Durs, ă ă 190 Guardini, Romano, 159 Haller, Albrecht von, 168 Hamburger, Kate, ă 159, 174, 176, 184 Hattingberg, Magda von, 17, 18 Hauptmann, Carl, 146 Hauptmann, Gerhart, 12, 133, 148 Hausenstein, Wilhelm, 26 Heaney, Seamus, 4, 199 Heath-Stubbs, John, 195 Hedayat, Sadegh, 80 Heidegger, Martin, 4, 129, 159, 168, 171, 174, 176–81, 183, 184, 185, 186 Heine, Heinrich, 9, 42, 43, 52, 108 Heisenberg, Werner, 81 Heller, Erich, 162 Hellingrath, Norbert von, 134 Hemingway, Ernest, 190 Hepner, Lotte, 35, 96, 166 Herder, Gottfried, 109 Hindemith, Paul, 4, 17 Hofmann, Michael, 190, 199 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 10, 18, 44, 79, 115, 132, 139, 143, 145 Holderlin, Friedrich, 9, 17, 83, 134, 143, ă 159, 177, 178 Holitscher, Arthur, 148, 150, 173 Holmstrom, Tora, 134 ă Homer, 107 Horace, 168 Huch, Ricarda, 139 Hulewicz, Witold, 80, 95, 98, 102, 128, 170, 184, 191 Husserl, Edmund, 184 Hutchinson, Ben, 48 Ibsen, Henrik, 12, 137 Ivan the Terrible Jacob of Voragine, 161, 162 Jacobsen, Jens Peter, 44, 132, 137, 138, 160 Jaenichen-Woermann, Hedwig, 164 Jaloux, Edmond, 24 James, William, 163 Jameson, Fredric, 114–24 220 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:34 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 index Jammes, Francis, 141 Jandl, Ernst, 189 Jarrell, Randell, 195, 196–7 Jenny, Rudolf Christoph, 191 Joyce, James, 81 Junger, Ernst, 79 ¨ Kafka, Franz, 17, 24, 79, 81, 123, 133 Kant, Immanuel, 160, 161 Kappus, Franz Xaver, 24, 27, 165 Kassner, Rudolf, 16, 161, 164, 165, 172, 190 Keats, John, 34, 45, 190 Key, Ellen, 10, 80, 137, 138, 141, 158, 171 Keyes, Sidney, 192, 193–5 Keyserling, Eduard von, 145 Kierkegaard, Søren, 137, 160, 161 Kippenberg, Anton, 18, 26, 58, 102, 108, 133, 134, 172 Kippenberg, Katharina, 95–103, 133, 134 Klages, Ludwig, 19, 164 Klee, Paul, 9, 19, 157 Klein, Melanie, 78 Kleist, Heinrich von, 17, 83–4, 86, 133 Klinger, Max, 145, 150 Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, 134, 168 Klossowska, Baladine (Merline), 22, 24, 29, 58, 98, 202 Knussen, Oliver, 4, 80 Kokoschka, Oskar, 19 Kolb, Annette, 139 Koltsov, Aleksei, 136 Komar, Kathleen L., 198–9 Korrodi, Eduard, 141 Kottmeyer, Gretel, 52 Kracauer, Siegfried, 79 Kˇrenek, Ernst, 24 Kundera, Milan, 4, 80 Lab´e, Louise, 86, 141 Lacan, Jacques, 78 Landowska, Wanda, 17 Laqueur, Thomas, 162 Larsson, Hanna, 137 Larsson, Hans, 137 Lauridsen, Morten, 80 Lauterbach, Dorothea, 124 Ledebur, Dorothea Freifrau von, 26 Leibnitz, Gottfried, 168 Leishman, James Blair (J.B.), 163, 190, 192 Leistikow, Walter, 147 Lenau, Nikolaus, 191 Leopardi, Giacomo, 17, 140 Lermontov, Mikhail, 136 Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 24 Leucippus, 170 Lewis, Alun, 192, 204 Lichtwark, Alfred, 150 Liebknecht, Karl, 20 Liliencron, Detlev von, 132 Linberg, Irmela, 104 Linus, 93 Lorenzo the Magnificent, 140 Lowell, Robert, 195, 196 Lucius von Stoăedten, Helmuth Freiherr von, 178, 181, 185 Lucretius, 168 Luxemburg, Rosa, 20 MacDiarmid, Hugh, 190, 192 Mach, Ernst, 71 Mackensen, Fritz, 13, 148 MacLeish, Archibald, 195 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 44, 141, 142, 159 Mallarm´e, Stephane, 80, 115, 141, 185 Mandelstam, Osip, 136 Manet, Eduard, 154 Mann, Thomas, 10, 14, 139 Marcel, Gabriel, 159 Marty, Anton, 159 Marx, Karl, 121 Masson-Ruffy, Marguerite, 32 Maurois, Franc¸ois, 141 McGuinness, Patrick, 199 McKendrick, Jamie, 199 Meier-Graefe, Julius, 153, 158 Meister Eckhart, 162 Merline, see Klossowska, Baladine Merrill, James, 4, 80 Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 169 Meyer, Michael, 193 Michelangelo Buonarotti, 19, 140, 141 Milhaud, Darius, Millet, Jean-Franc¸ois, 149 Mitchell, Stephen, Mitterer, Erika, 24 Modersohn-Becker, Paula, see Becker, Paula, Modersohn, Otto, 13, 14, 146, 147, 148, 149 Montaigne, Michel, 141 Mood, John, 198 Moodie, Alma, 17 Morike, Eduard, 169 ¨ Muhll, Theodora von der, 21 ¨ Musil, Robert, 62, 79, 129, 174–6, 177, 179, 186 221 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:34 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 index Mussolini, Benito, 19, 168 Muther, Richard, 146, 150, 153 Nadhern y´ von Borutin, Sidonie, 15, 16, 143, ´ 153 Nebelong, Edith, 137 Nefertiti, Queen, 22 Nekrasov, Nikolai, 137 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2, 9, 10, 12, 21, 23, 45, 48, 115, 118–19, 135, 160–1, 163, 169 Noailles, Anna de, 141 Nordheim, Arne, 80 Nørgard, Per, 80 ˚ Norlind, Ernst, 137 Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg), 134 O’Brien, Sean, 199 Obstfelder, Sigbjorn, 137 Onfray, Michel, 163 Opitz, Martin, 105 Oppert, Kurt, 72 Orlik, Emil, 11 Ortega y Gasset, Jos´e, 81, 82 Otto, Rudolf, 163 Ouckama Knoop, Gertrud, 101 Ouckama Knoop, Wera, 22, 101–2, 103, 107, 108 Overbeck, Fritz, 13, 148 Ovid, 4, 98, 107, 135, 168 Parmenides, 170, 177 Pascal, Blaise, 163, 166 Pasternak, Leonid, 13, 24, 136 Paszthory, Casimir von, 18 Paterson, Don, 181, 199, 200–1 Pauli, Gustav, 147 Paulin, Tom, 199, 200 Petrarch, Francesco, 105, 140 Phelan, Anthony, 64 Picasso, Pablo, 9, 19, 88, 125, 157 Pongs, Hermann, 132, 144, 160, 162, 168 Pound, Ezra, 195 Prel, Carl du, 162 Proust, Marcel, 17, 48, 141 Puccini, Giacomo, 10 Pushkin, Aleksandr, 136, 137 Pynchon, Thomas, 80 Reinhardt, Werner, 21 Rembrandt van Rijn, 149 Ribadeneira, Pedro de, 162 Rich, Adrienne, Rilke, Jaroslav (uncle), 11, 147 Rilke, Josef and Sophie (parents), 10–11 Rilke, Ruth (daughter), 14, 28 Rimbaud, Arthur, 35 Rintelen, Fritz-Joachim von, 159 Robertson, Robin, 199–200 Rodin, Auguste, 2, 9, 14, 25, 41, 54, 56, 59, 65, 70, 72, 120, 124, 140, 141, 142, 145, 150–3, 154, 156, 157, 158, 164, 166, 172 Rohde, Erwin, 164 Roth, Philip, Ryan, Judith, 134 Saint Augustine, 161, 162, 163, 166 Saint Francis of Assisi, 54 Saint Teresa of Avila, 162 Salinger, J D., Salis, Jean Rudolphe von, 21 Salon d’antomne 1907 Sappho, 135 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 169 Sauer, Hedda, 143 Sazonova, Julia, 24 Schaer, Alfred, 132 Schauen, looking, gazing Schill, Sofiia Nikolaevna, 136 Schiller, Friedrich von, 34, 168 Schlozer, Leopold von, 110 ă Schmitz, Hermann, 159, 1701 Schoenberg, Arnold, Scholz, Wilhlem von, 133 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 160, 161, 171 Schrenck-Notzing, Albert von, 162 Schroder, Martha, 147, 149 ă Schuler, Alfred, 19, 135, 164–5 Schwitters, Kurt, 21 Sedlmayr, Hans, 166 Segantini, Giovannni, 14 Shakespeare, William, 17, 105, 144 Shapcott, Jo, 201–3 Shaw, George Bernard, 15 Shostakovich, Dmitri, 4, 80 Sieber, Carl Sieber-Rilke, Ruth, see Rilke, Ruth Simmel, Georg, 12, 76–7, 119, 123, 160 Sitwell, Edith, 192 Sizzo-Norris-Crouy, Margot, Countess of, 26, 28, 29, 37, 97–8, 101, 179 Smetana, Bedˇrich, 10 Spender, Stephen, 190, 192 Spengler, Oswald, 19, 167 Stadler, Ernst, 43 222 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:34 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 index Stampa, Gaspara, 15, 85, 140 Steindorff, Georg, 138 Steppuhn, Feodor, 162 Stevens, Alfred, 147 Stevens, Wallace, 3, 195 Stifter, Adalbert, 139 Stolberg-Stolberg, Augusta Louise zu, 134 Strindberg, August, 137 Studer-Goll, Claire, 24 Supervielle, Jules, 24 Thurn und Taxis Hohenlohe, Marie Princess of, 16–25, 29, 82, 95, 140, 144, 161, 162, 163, 172 Tieck, Ludwig, 139 Toller, Ernst, 20 Tolstoy, Leo, 13, 135, 136, 137 Trakl, Georg, 17, 43 Turgenev, Ivan, 135, 136 Twombly, Cy, Uexkull, ă Jakob von, 160 Ullmann, Regina, 24, 26 Uz, Johann Peter, 168 Val´ery, Paul, 1, 2, 21, 22, 24, 80, 141, 163 Van Gogh, Vincent, 124, 154 Verhaeren, Emile, 15 Verlaine, Paul, 35, 141 Villon, Franc¸ois, 141 Vinnen, Carl, 148 Virgil, 107 Vogeler, Heinrich, 13, 49, 146, 147, 148, 149 Vogelweide, Walther von der, 133 Vollmoeller, Mathilde, 154, 155 Volynsky, Akim, 135 Wagner, Richard, 161 Wassermann, Jakob, 132, 139 Wattenwyl, Yvonne von, 21 Wenders, Wim, Werfel, Franz, 10 Wernick, Eva, 162 Westhoff, Clara, 14, 49, 52, 58, 120, 124, 132, 137, 146, 147, 148, 150, 153, 154, 172 Westhoff, Helmut, 31 Wilamowitz, Ulrich von, 135 Wilde, Oscar, 10, 144 Williams, William Carlos, 195 Winfrey, Oprah, Winicott, Donald, 78 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 19 Wolff, Kurt, 133 Woronia, Jelena, 24, 36 Worringer, Wilhelm, 19 Wunderly-Volkart, Nanny, 29, 35, 171 Yeats, William Butler, 194 Zola, Emile, 135 Zweig, Stefan, 9, 18, 20, 64, 174–6, 177, 179 Zwetajewa-Efron, Marina, 13, 24 223 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:34 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 INDEX OF WORKS A Doge, 67 A Faded Lady (Faded), 197 A girl, white and before the evening hour, 149 A Prophet, 67 About the Girls, see Atmosphere in the Barkenhoff Advent, 41, 43–5, 46, 47, 48 Alcestis, 59, 135 All feeling, in figures and actions, 51 All will be great once more, 55 Alongside Life, 11 And when I give you my hands in rest, 47 And yet, although each one of us, 53 Angel Songs, 47 Anxiety, 165 Archaic Torso of Apollo, 3, 16, 59, 71, 104, 121, 135, 169 At the Edge of Night, 119, 186 Atmosphere in the Barkenhoff, 149 Auguste Rodin, 14, 58, 151–2 Autumn, 33, 199 Behind Smichov, 43 Black Cat, 69 Blue Hydrangea, 69–70 Bohemian Walking-Days, 160 By St Vitus’s, 43 Can you tell me where the island is?, 42 Cells of hatred, strong in the greatest circle of love, 19 Charles the Twelfth of Sweden rides into the Ukraine, 136 Christ Eleven Visions, 45 Corpse-Washing, 60 Cretan Artemis, 59 Cry out, cry out!, 55 David Sings Before Saul, 59 Diaries of the Early Years, 146, 147, 150 Draft of a political Speech, 18 Dream-Crowned, 41, 43–4, 47 Duino Elegies, 2, 3, 16, 17, 21, 22, 29, 37, 45, 55, 56, 60, 75, 77, 80, 94, 95–8, 102–3, 108, 113, 118, 125, 126–8, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 157, 161, 162, 164, 166, 169–70, 175, 177–8, 180, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 197, 199 Early Apollo, 59, 71, 104, 135 Encounter in the Avenue of Chestnuts, 60 Entrance, 52, 53 Evening in Skane, 138 ˚ Everyday Life, 12 Experience, 163 Exposed on the mountains of the heart, 2, 53, 126, 175 Family of Strangers, 60 Finds, 45 First Poems, 41 Five Songs, 18, 125, 134, 167 Florentine Diary, 12, 13, 141, 171 For Carl du Prel, 162, 172 For, Lord, the great cities are, 182 For poverty is a great shining from within, 55 For we are only husk and leaf, 54–5 From Pocket Notebooks and Memory Pads, 24 From the Literary Remains of Count C.W., 21, 162 Gifts, 44 Gong, Gustav Frenssen, Jorn ă Uhl, 117 224 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:56 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 index of works Hoar-Frost, 42 I am at home between day and dream, 48 I am, you fearful one, 50–1 I know how to listen to you: a voice goes, 149 I love you, you gentle law, 50 I want to praise him, 55 I would like to give you a keepsake, 47 If you ask: what was in your dreams, 47 In a Foreign Park, 62, 71, 132 In and After Worpswede, 49, 117, 137, 147–50 In deep nights I dig for you, 53 In the Drawing-Room, 62, 71 In the Little Quarter, 58 In the Old House, 43 It beckons us to feeling, 183 It was in Karnak, 138 It was in May, 42 Offerings to the Lares, 11, 41, 42–3, 133, 159 Oh where is he, who from possession and time, 54 ‘One must die because one knows them’, 138 On Marriage, 165 On Modern Lyric Poetry, 48, 140, 171 On Russian Art, 49, 58 Orchards, 202, 203 Orpheus Eurydice Hermes, 46, 99, 135, 141, 165, 187 Pearls roll away, 134 Phallic Songs, see Seven Poems Portrait of My Father as a Young Man, 59, 196 Primal Sound, 21 Progress, 119 Quai du Rosaire, 59, 69, 71, 180 Just as nature leaves its creatures, 168, 178–9 Lace, 60, 71 Lady Before the Mirror, 59, 69, 70 Landscape in Mid-Bohemia, 43 L’Ange du M´eridien, 59 Last Evening, 69 Late Autumn in Venice, 71, 141, 175 Letter from the Young Worker, 22, 46, 117, 165, 166 Letters on C´ezanne, 72, 143, 154–5, 157 Letters to a Young Poet, 2, 27, 165, 192, 199 Life is good and bright, 47 Lives and Songs, 11, 41, 42 Lord: we are poorer than the poorest creatures, 54 Loves, 43 Marginalia on Friedrich Nietzsche, 118, 135, 161 Market, 45 Maurice Maeterlinck, 159 Nevertheless, 160 New Poems, 1, 2, 15, 41, 45, 46, 48, 49, 52, 56, 59–73, 75, 104, 113, 120–1, 126, 131, 132, 135, 137, 141, 142, 143, 145, 155–7, 165, 166, 169, 174, 175, 180, 184, 187, 197 Night, 45 Night Ride, 60, 136 Notes on the Melody of Things, 41, 58 Requiem, 52–3 Requiem for a Friend, 103, 193 Requiem for Wolf Count of Kalckreuth, 182 Roman Fountain, 61, 69 Roman Sarcophagi, 71, 141 Roses, 202–3 Schmargendorf Diary, 12 See, God, another comes to build on you, 118 Self-Portrait 1906, 59, 61 Seven Poems (Phallic Songs), 134, 138, 165 Sink down, you slow Serale, 58 So long as you catch the things you throw yourself, 168 Song of the Sea, 141 Songs of the Girls, 48, 157 Soul in Space, 197 Stay calm if suddenly, 203 Stories of the Dear Lord, 141 Storm, 136, 138 Storm, Storm, 26 Tanagra, 71 Tears, tears breaking out of me, 138 The Apostle, 118 The Apple-Orchard, 68–9, 137 The Arrival The Bachelor, 60, 69 The Ball, 60, 121 The Bed, 60 225 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:56 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 index of works The Beetle-Stone, 69, 71 The Birth of Venus, 59 The Blind Man, 60, 67 The Book of Hours, 12, 14, 42, 47, 48–51, 53, 55, 60, 116, 118, 120, 136, 169, 171, 182, 184, 186, 198, 199 The Book of Images, 12, 48, 49, 52–3, 56, 119, 120, 131, 136, 138, 174, 186 The Book of Monastic Life, 49, 51, 52, 116, 136, 161 The Book of Pilgrimage, 49, 53, 116, 171 The Book of Poverty and Death, 49, 54, 116 The Bowl of Roses, 66–7 The Bride, 149 The Capital, 59 The Carousel, 121, 156–7, 169, 190 The Cathedral, 59 The Century of the Child, 10 The Children, 45 The Coat of Arms, 69 The Convalescent, 67 The countryside is bright, 47 The Courtesan, 67 The Drinker’s Song, 57 The Early Poems, 48 The Flamingos The Fool, 45 The Gazelle, 69 The Group, 60 The hour gets late, 54 The King, 65, 67 The Last Count of Brederode Avoids Capture by the Turks, 59 The Last Ones, 144 The last sign, let it happen to us, 55, 182 The Lay of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke, 12, 18, 51, 193 The Life of the Virgin Mary, 17, 95 The Man Looking, 131 The Man Reading, 131 The Mountain, 169 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, 1, 2, 5, 14, 15, 30, 34, 37, 45, 53, 55, 74–9, 83, 84, 96, 113, 122–4, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 161, 162, 166, 169, 175, 177, 178, 182–3, 193 The Old Invalid, 42 The Orphan, 45 The Painter, 46 The Panther, 56, 121, 156, 169 The Parks The Pavilion, 59, 71 The Poet, 193 The Portal, 59, 71 The rain clutches with its cool fingers, 47 The Reader, 60, 131–2 The red roses were never so red, 149 The Rose Window, 59, 71 The Saint, 56–7 The Sonnets to Orpheus, 3, 21, 22, 25, 60, 75, 95–110, 125, 133, 135, 159, 164, 168, 169, 170, 177, 178, 180–1, 185, 187, 193, 200–1 The Spanish Trilogy, 17, 126, 139–40 The Spirit Ariel, 193 The Square, 59, 71, 174–5 The Standard-Bearer, 65–6, 67 The Steps of the Orangerie, 59, 71, 180 The Swan, 165, 200 The Testament, 21, 190 The Tower, 59, 68, 180 The Tsars, 49, 136 The Valaisian Quatrains, 201 The Value of the Monologue, 142 The Widow’s Song, 197 This is the silent rising of the phalluses, 165 To Celebrate Myself, 35, 41, 45–8 To Celebrate You, 45, 46, 47 To Jens Peter Jacobsen, 44 To the Poet:/Vita N:A, 140 Tombs of the Hetaerae, 71, 165 Turning-Point, 2, 17, 126, 161 Venetian Morning, 69, 141 Venice, 45 Voices, 57, 120 What will you do, God, when I die, 50 When I attended University, 159 When I sometimes in my mind, 47 Wild Chicory, 43 Windows, 201, 202 Woman Going Blind, 67 Worpswede Diary, 51 Written for Karl Count Lanckoronski, 168 ´ You are only grasped by an act, 51 You come and go, 50 You my sacred solitude, 44–5 You, Neighbour God, 50, 53 You rock that stayed as the mountains came, 54, 116 You see, I want much, 165 You smile gently, 47 You too will be great, 56 226 Downloaded from Cambridge Companions Online by IP 149.43.20.9 on Wed Feb 13 22:54:56 WET 2013 http://universitypublishingonline.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139002790 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 ... by the relationship with the sculptor, but made anxious by the city, Rilke writes the poem The Panther’ probably in November This will become one of the most famous of the New Poems 1903 The. .. badly); the brooding on death; the aristocratic insistence on the magisterial role of the poet: all these seem precisely to 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