The Rilke of Ruth Speirs
Subtitle: new poems, Duino elegies, sonnets to Orpheus & others
By: edited by John Pilling & Peter Robinson
Contributors: Speirs, Ruth, translator; Pilling, John, editor; Robinson, Peter, 1953- editor
Publisher: Two Rivers Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Reading
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781909747128
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Poems
Notes: Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: PART I; title: From New Poems --; title: One -- (1907); title: Abishag --; title: Departure of the Prodigal Son --; title: Cathedral --; title: Portal --; title: Rose Window --; title: Capital --; title: God in the Middle Ages --; title: Prisoner -- Panther --; title: Woman's Fate --; title: Convalescent --; title: Grown-Up --; title: Parting --; title: Experience of Death --; title: Blue Hydrangea --; title: Steps of the Orangerie --; title: Merry-Go-Round --; title: Spanish Dancer --; title: Square --; title: Island --; title: Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes --; title: Alcestis --; title: Birth of Venus --; title: Two -- (1908); title: Archaic Torso of Apollo --; title: Death of the Beloved --; title: Sibyl --; title: Insane in the Garden --; title: Unknown Family --; title: Washing the Corpse --; title: Blind Man --; title: Late Autumn in Venice --; title: Ball --; title: Child --; title: Dog --; title: Duino Elegies -- (1912 -- 1922); title: From Sonnets to Orpheus -- (1922) -- PART II; title: From The Book of Images -- (1902, 1906); title: First Book Part One --; title: `Whoever you may be ... ' -- [1902]; title: Childhood -- [1906]; title: First Book Part Two --; title: People at Night -- [1902]; title: Anxiety -- [1902]; title: `Loneliness is like ... ' -- [1906]; title: Autumn Day -- [1906]; title: Evening -- [1906]; title: Second Book Part Two --; title: Fragments from Lost Days -- [1902]; title: From The Book of Hours -- (1899, 1901, 1903); title: Book Of Pilgrimage -- (1901); title: `To you, my praying ... ' [V -- VI] --; title: `You are the heir ... ' [IX -- X] --; title: `I'm merely one ... ' [XI] --; title: `Now the red rowans ... ' [XXXII] --; title: `God, have no fear ... ' [XXXIII] --; title: `I dig for you ... '[XXXIV] --; title: Book of Poverty and Death -- (1903); title: ` ... Lord, the large cities ... ' [IV -- V] --; title: `Lord, we are poorer ... ' [VIII] --; title: From Uncollected and Later Poems -- (1912 -- 1926); title: Apparition --; title: `Pearls roll down ... ' --; title: From The Spanish Trilogy --; title: Spring --; title: Christ's Descent into Hell --; title: `Behind the guiltless trees ... ' --; title: Great Night --; title: `"One must die because one knows them ... "' --; title: `Beloved ... ' --; title: `Exposed on the hills' --; title: `Again and again ... ' --; title: `Music: breathing of statues ... ' --; title: `When catching what you throw ... ' --; title: Imaginary Life --; title: Magician -- -- APPENDIX; title: Note to Selected Poems -- (1942); title: Unsigned Times Literary Supplement reviews by Ruth Speirs.