So have I read Rilke? I bought Stephen Mitchell’s translation and selection Ahead of All Parting when I was a teenager. A theme in these essays over the years (first announced here) has been the question of what it means to read lyric poetry, if its verbal density even can be read in the way that a novel or play (or epic poem) can, and whether, moreover, this permanent elusiveness raises it above or lowers it beneath modes like narrative and drama. Martin Heidegger’s philosophical glosses in Poetry, Language, Thought-explanations that only redoubled the poetic mystery-sent me back to Rilke, or maybe sent me to Rilke for the first time. Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose by Rainer Maria Rilke
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