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New poems: the other part - 1908.
From: The Nation
Date: 19870926
Author:Rudman, Mark
NEW POEMS:
The Other Part (1908).
By Rainer Maria Rilke. Translated by Edward Snow. North Point Press. 221 pp. $18.50.
Rilke has changed alongside our changing lives. He was in danger of being transformed-- especially during the 1960s in America--into a cult figure, a savant, like Rabindranath Tagore or Kahlil Gibran. This is the Rilke who gave advice, the Rilke of the Letters to a Young Poet and certain passages in his novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, with his injunctions about what you must do "for the sake of a single poem': "You must understand ...
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