Vally, Hidigeigei, and others -- Larenopfer: a commentary -- Three diaries, 1898-1900 -- Lou Andreas-Salmoné's Russian diary, 1900 -- Rilke's diary from Westerwede and Paris, 1902 -- Rilke as reviewer of German-language literature -- Rilke as reviewer of Scandinavian literature -- Poems

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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture, Rochester, N.Y, 2009

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A look at neglected aspects of the early career of one of the premier poets of the German language.Although Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century -- as befits the perhaps most important German-language poet of modern times -- certain aspects of his early life and career have been neglected or are in need of a fresh look. Accordingly, this book investigates Rilke's life and career from adolescence until the verge of thirty. Here the reader finds the hysterical, harried tutee clinging to Valerie vonRhonfeld; the clever, supercilious, and anxious stroller through Prague of Larenopfer; the narcissistic diarist preening for Lou Andreas-Salomé in Italy and elsewhere; the priggishly high-minded but lethal reviewer of German-language literature; the devoted but delusional presenter of Nordic letters. A final section focuses on thirteen poems or poem clusters composed between 1892 and 1900 and mostly left untouched by Rilke scholarship. While depending heavily on the evidence of the texts themselves, the present author allows himself to conjecture about, for instance, the traces left by the boy's hasty training in Latin; his knowledge -- or ignorance -- of Czech national opera and popular literature; the genesis of some willfully'decadent'poems; his odd literary likes and dislikes; and so on. From this'Wirrnis'(confusion, muddle; one of his favorite words), the young Rilke emerges as a dogged self-educator, and, for all his laments and insecurities and languorous poses, a figure of distinction, gifted with an almost preternatural verbal inventiveness and recondite energy. George C. Schoolfield is Emeritus Professor of German and Scandinavian Literature at Yale.

Although Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century -- as befits the perhaps most important German-language poet of modern times -- certain aspects of his early life and career have been neglected or are in need of a fresh look. Accordingly, this book investigates Rilke's life and career from adolescence until the verge of thirty. Here the reader finds the hysterical, harried tutee clinging to Valerie vonRhonfeld; the clever, supercilious, and anxious stroller through Prague of <i>Larenopfer;</i> the narcissistic diarist preening for Lou Andreas-Salomé in Italy and elsewhere; the priggishly high-minded but lethal reviewer of German-language literature; the devoted but delusional presenter of Nordic letters. A final section focuses on thirteen poems or poem clusters composed between 1892 and 1900 and mostly left untouched by Rilke scholarship. While depending heavily on the evidence of the texts themselves, the present author allows himself to conjecture about, for instance, the traces left by the boy's hasty training in Latin; his knowledge -- or ignorance -- of Czech national opera and popular literature; the genesis of some willfully "decadent" poems; his odd literary likes and dislikes; and so on. From this "Wirrnis" (confusion, muddle; one of his favorite words), the young Rilke emerges as a dogged self-educator, and, for all his laments and insecurities and languorous poses, a figure of distinction, gifted with an almost preternatural verbal inventiveness and recondite energy.<br><br> George C. Schoolfield is Emeritus Professor of German and Scandinavian Literature at Yale.

Although Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century - as befits the perhaps most important German-language poet of modern times - certain aspects of his early life and career have been neglected or are in need of a fresh look. Accordingly, this book investigates Rilke's life and career from adolescence until the verge of thirty. Here the reader finds the hysterical, harried tutee clinging to Valerie von Rhonfeld; the clever, supercilious, and anxious stroller through Prague of 'Larenopfer;' the narcissistic diarist preening for Lou Andreas-Salomé in Italy and elsewhere; the priggishly high-minded but lethal reviewer of German-language literature; the devoted but delusional presenter of Nordic letters. A final section focuses on thirteen poems or poem clusters composed between 1892 and 1900 and mostly left untouched by Rilke scholarship. While depending heavily on the evidence of the texts themselves, the present author allows himself to conjecture about, for instance, the traces left by the boy's hasty training in Latin; his knowledge - or ignorance - of Czech national opera and popular literature; the genesis of some willfully 'decadent' poems; his odd literary likes and dislikes; and so on. From this 'Wirrnis' (confusion, muddle; one of his favorite words), the young Rilke emerges as a dogged self-educator, and, for all his laments and insecurities and languorous poses, a figure of distinction, gifted with an almost preternatural verbal inventiveness and recondite energy. George C. Schoolfield is emeritus professor of German and Scandinavian Literature at Yale

Frontcover......Page 1
CONTENTS ......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 16
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18
CHRONOLOGY......Page 22
I. Prague......Page 32
1: Vally, Hidigeigei, and Others......Page 34
2: Larenopfer: A Commentary......Page 80
II. Diaries......Page 122
3: Three Diaries, 1898–1900......Page 124
4: Lou Andreas-Salomé’s Russian Diary, 1900......Page 153
5: Rilke’s Diary from Westerwede and Paris, 1902......Page 165
III. Rilke as Literary Critic......Page 180
6: Rilke as Reviewer of German-Language Literature......Page 182
7: Rilke as Reviewer of Scandinavian Literature......Page 230
IV. Poems......Page 266
8: “Der alte Invalid”......Page 268
9: “Auswandrerschiff”......Page 280
10: “An den Grafen von Platen”......Page 291
11: “Die Liese wird heute just sechzehn Jahr”......Page 306
12: “Venedig”......Page 312
13: “Weißes Glück”......Page 325
14: “Aus einem Bauernsommer” and “Vom Tode”......Page 334
15: “Intérieur”......Page 349
16: “In der Certosa”......Page 357
17: “Die Heiligen Drei Könige”......Page 369
18: “Aus dem hohen Jubelklanggedränge” and “Im Musiksaal”......Page 381
19: “Karl der Zwölfte von Schweden reitet in der Ukraine”......Page 393
20: “Sturm”......Page 419
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 428
INDEX ......Page 430
Backcover ......Page 465

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