Rainer Maria Rike, 1893-1908: Poetry as Process - A Poetics of Becoming

"Rainer Maria Rilkes'' early verse is often seen as having little relevance to the great achievement of the middle years, the Neue Gedichte. Yet the very different styles of the juvenilia and this new maturity are united by a preoccupation with processes of motion and growth which governs both his life and work. In this meticulous philological study, Ben Hutchinson reassesses every level of ...