Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025119)

Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and the visual arts. Taking a skeptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Ryan shows how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. Rilke is now the most widely-read and influential German-language poet, and this study is full of surprising discoveries about his innovative and often profoundly moving poems.

Author: Judith Ryan
ISBN-10: 0521025117
ISBN-13: 9780521025119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d