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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 831.912 EAN: 9780393310986 ISBN: 0393310981 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2004-08 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers. Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show Rilke's profound understanding of men and women and his ardent spirituality, rooted in the senses. Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes in his work—death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's reflections on wisdom and openness to experience, on grasping what is most difficult and turning what is most alien into that which we can most trust. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Essential reading: Human RelationshipsEveryone should own a copy of this short collection of insightful ideas. Buy at least two copies and give one to the one you care most about. You do not need to be guided through this. It is poetry; read it and re-read it. Many careful thinkers, including Albert Einstein, believe that one's human relationships is the paramount value. Your relationships begin with your reflections on yourself. Rating:  - Great Rilke,Less MoodThis translation and selection is really made with love. Yet I could not fail but noticing an unbalance between Rilke's radical work on Love and the difficulty of the translator and critic to approach it without being surrendered. As the title suggests. Read it! Rating: - "The point is to live everything""Do not seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now." Perhaps then without noticing it everything will resolve gradually along some distant day into the answer." Rilke is a poet who brings mystery and existensial questioning into every rich and suggestive line he writes. His poetry is ripe and weighted with meaning. In this small book there are selections from his letters, in ... Read More Rating: - A journey through the roots of the speech!There have been very few poets with such creative mind, potency and inexhaustibleness as R.M.R. He was a cosmic poet of introspective flight loaded if you want of musical intimacy, his thoughts seem to be Chopin's Nocturnes and he sings his rapture homage to the night as a few indeed but the most impressive character is behind that radiant language's use there is a shaman speaking by him. You may not argue the lack of time concerning to Rilke: the poetry simply doesn't understand ... Read More Rating: - Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Considerations, etc.Some 25 years ago i was given a copy of this enlightening book by the author, himself. It continues to be one i re-read and enjoy. Dr. Mood is an inspiration, in that he is both a sexy man as well as one who has been blessed with the love of an extraordinarily brilliant woman, which leads me to believe he's eminently qualified to speak on the subject as one who has given, as well as enjoyed a great love in spite of difficulties. An excellent addition to the library of anyone in search of truths. |
