Rilke for Dummies; preface

[Mark Kohut]

Having missed (most of) Rilke in my not poetic enough youth, I have read The 
Duino Elegies in trying to 'get' them in relation to TRP, esp. GR, ...
 
Hard enuff to 'get' them images in themselves, much less see them as part of
Rilke's world-view or in other contexts. For me anyway. Your mileage may
have been lifted by angel's wings. 
 
Anyway, I have now read a chapter on Rilke in this library discard I found 
called Modern German Literature, 1880--1950 by one Jethro Bithell. 
 
Praises at highest levels--'very greatest'---, even then [first edition '39, this one '59] but outlines
his anguished beliefs as they fed his poetry. Some illumine our author, maybe,
whom we know was influenced by.
 
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