Poetry Inc.
Christopher Reid, 18 September 1986
A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke
by Donald Prater.
Oxford, 472 pp., £25, March 1986,9780198157557 Show More
by Donald Prater.
Oxford, 472 pp., £25, March 1986,
Letters: Summer 1926
by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva and Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Yevgeny Pasternak and Yelena Pasternak.
Cape, 251 pp., £15, May 1986,0 224 02376 4 Show More
by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva and Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Yevgeny Pasternak and Yelena Pasternak.
Cape, 251 pp., £15, May 1986,
“... called for. Clearly, for Tsvetayeva, Rilke was not simply the greatest living poet, as he was for Pasternak, but he was ‘poetry incarnate’, too, and for this reason alone it is probably fortunate that they never met in the flesh. Letters, sent over long distances and, in the case of those between Rilke and ... ”
