Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Gedichte an Die Nacht': An Essay in Interpretation

by Anthony Stephens

The Gedichte an die Nacht is a collection of 22 poems composed between January 1913 and February 1914, which Rilke copied into a manuscript book for his friend Rudolf Kassner in about 1916. The importance of the poems as a collection lies in the fact that they were written during the period of composition of Rilke's most outstanding work, the Duinese Elegien, and they show the poet at work on ideas and motifs which are central to the elegies. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155568
• ISBN13: 9780521155564
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"