Life of a Poet: A Biography of Rainer Maria Rilke

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By Ralph Freedom

"Lively and detailed."—Michael Hofmann, New York Times Book Review

"What Freedman's book does, and more thoroughly than any of the other biographies, is to retell Rilke's story meticulously and with a welcome attention to the circumambient social and political circumstances."—Michael André Bernstein, New Republic

"An extraordinary accomplishment—a scrupulous, attentive, and beautifully written account of the life and work of one of this century's greatest, yet most elusive poets."—Mark Strand

In this outstanding biography, Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career by combining detailed accounts of salient episodes from the poet's restless life with an intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them. 

Paperback
640 pages | 65 halftones
Northwestern University Press, 1998
6 x 2 x 9 inches
ISBN 9780810115439
Biography