Ardour
J.P. Stern, 3 November 1983
The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke
by J.F. Hendry.
Carcanet, 184 pp., £9.95, July 1983,0 85635 369 8 Show More
by J.F. Hendry.
Carcanet, 184 pp., £9.95, July 1983,
Rilke: sein Leben, seine Welt, sein Werk
by Wolfgang Leppmann.
Scherz Verlag, 483 pp., £11, May 1981,3 502 18407 0 Show More
by Wolfgang Leppmann.
Scherz Verlag, 483 pp., £11, May 1981,
Rainer Maria Rilke: Leben und Werk im Bild
edited by Ingeborg Schnack.
Insel Verlag, 270 pp., £2.55, May 1977,3 458 01735 6 Show More
edited by Ingeborg Schnack.
Insel Verlag, 270 pp., £2.55, May 1977,
“... collapse and aftermath he witnessed. This network – the 115 women mentioned in some detail in Wolfgang Leppmann’s biography by no means exhaust those listed in Rilke’s own address-book – made his life and poetry possible when, for the last time in the history of Europe, social and economic circumstances permitted the freedom from ... ”