Selected Poems of Rilke

Author: Rilke [Austria]
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: This book mainly includes early poems, In the Old House, In the Old Town, A Nobleman's Mansion, Hra?ín Castle, The Days of November, Twilight, The Young Sculptor, Spring, The Homeland and the People, All Souls' Day, Winter Morning, The Sphinx, When Spring Comes, When I Entered University, Nevertheless, My Mother, Catarina Teel, Folk Songs, Folk Songs, Country Sunday, Summer Twilight, The Old Clock, Central Bohemian Landscape, Songs of My Homeland, I Miss, I Feel, There Is a Little House That Is Mine, Here the Roses Are Yellow, We Sit Together and Wait. After Rilke became famous, he deeply regretted his early works, but everything he wrote in Prague was not entirely worthless. Although he had not yet found his own artistic path at the time, most of his works were imitative and sentimental, yet they also lacked sensitivity and pursuit of beauty. Some shining masterpieces were enough to foreshadow the poet's future, such as Offerings to the Genius of the House, Coronation in a Dream, Celebrate for Me, and others. The Book of Images is a collection of poems frequently mentioned in literary history. It was first published in early 1902 and revised and republished in 1906. These poems attempt to use "images" to structurally fix the entire collection, representing a transition from vague sorrow to precise form.