The Dear Purchase
Subtitle: A Theme in German Modernism (Cambridge Studies in German)
Contributors: Nicholas Boyle (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521024402
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German literature; Literary Criticism; German; Europe; Sacrifice in literature; European - German; German literature--20th century--History and; German literature--20th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism & Collections / German; European - General; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: In the last years of Rilke's life, after the immense creative fervour of February 1922 when the Sonnets to Orpheus and two other shorter collections were written and the Duino Elegies completed, he wrote a large number of short lyrical poems.