The Making of a Pure Poet
Ashgrove Publishing Ltd
978-1-85398-205-7 (ISBN)
When Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet and military cadet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, he could not in his wildest dreams have expected such a voluminous response from the acclaimed German writer. The young poet wasn’t to know that he would serve as a sounding board. Rilke, in his late twenties, had a lot on his mind; not least his estrangement from his wife, the mother of his eighteen-month child; his love-hate engagement with Paris and Auguste Rodin; the beginnings of a novel; and the modernisation of his poetry.
Focusing on this moment of personal and artistic crisis, Augustus Young picks up the thread of Rilke’s life, seeking to weave a patchwork portrait of the enigmatic poet and his intimates. Of the latter, most prominent are his long-suffering wife Clara and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a close confidante and ruthless mentor. Utterly committed to creating the conditions he deemed necessary to make poetry, Rilke’s personal life is an analyst’s dream. Building on the foundation of the surprisingly open Letters to a Young Poet, this book is a new and revealing investigation into one of the most misunderstood poets of the Modernist era and how his poems relate to the life.
Augustus Young was born in Cork, Ireland, worked in London as an epidemiologist and now lives in France. A much-published poet, he has also wrtiten the widely acclaimed auto- fiction, Light Years (2002), Storytime (2005), The Secret Gloss: A Film Play on the Life and Work of Soren Kierkegaard (2009), The Nicotine Cat and Other People (2009), m.moire (2014), The invalidity of all guarantees (2016), Brazilian Tequila (2017), Heavy Years: inside the head of a health worker, and The Credit, an opera in search of its music (2018).
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter One: Pawing the Ground: letters one and two (2-4/1903)
Chapter Two: Getting into his Stride: letter three (4/1903)
Chapter Three: ‘Black Widow Waves’: letter four (7/1903)
Chapter Four: Matters Arising from Letter Four
1.The Worpswede Monograph
2. On ‘Living an Idea’
3. 3. Sehnsucht/Geschlecht:
4. ‘Sex of the Mind’
5. Marital musical chairs:
6. ‘Love your solitude’
7. The Novel
8. How to Handle the Family
9. A Repetition Forward:
Chapter Five: Rome and Room Enough: letter five (10/1903)
Chapter Six: A Christmas Greeting: letter six (12/1903)
Chapter Seven: Introduction to the Jobian Tendency
Chapter Eight: ‘The World is an Unfinished Work’: mentors (Lou and
Rodin)
Chapter Nine: ‘Love is a sealed parcel’: letter seven (5/1904)
Chapter Ten: ‘We are alone’: letter eight (8/1904)
Chapter Eleven: The New Love
Chapter Twelve: Gender Politics in a Cold Climate (Ellen Key)
Chapter Thirteen: A Cold Reception in a Hot Climate (Rodin and
Rilke)
Chapter Fourteen: A Pause for Thought on the Transmigration of
Words
Chapter Fifteen: Eleventh Hour Redemptions
Chapter Sixteen: The Short Goodbye: Letter Nine (11/1904)
Chapter Seventeen: Rilke on a High
Chapter Eighteen: Sympathy by Other Means
Chapter Nineteen: On a Peak: letter ten (12/1908)
Chapter Twenty: ‘Requiem for a friend’
Chapter Twenty-One: A Princess Comes to the Rescue
Chapter Twenty-Two: What Happened to Kappus?
Chapter Twenty-Three: What Happened to Rilke
Chapter Twenty-Four: A Boring War and its Aftermath
Chapter Twenty-Five: What’s Wrong with America?
Chapter Twenty-Six: Rilke the Inimitable Poet
Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Word from the Author
Epilogue: A Lap of Honor (1925-26)
Post-script: The Last Word to Rilke
Appendix – Guiding Notes to literary and philosophical terms
Chronology of Rilke’s Life
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.5.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Things That Happen When Reading Rilke |
| Verlagsort | Bath |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85398-205-9 / 1853982059 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85398-205-7 / 9781853982057 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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