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Further Reading

Baron, Frank, Ernst S. Dick, and Warren R. Mauer, eds.,

Rilke: The Alchemy of Alienation, Regents Press of Kansas,

1980.

This anthology contains English-language essays by

Rilke scholars such as Stephen Spender, Lev

Kopelev, Walter H. Sokel, Andras Sandor, and Erich

Simenauer. It is a useful resource for students already

familiar with Rilke’s work.

Freedman, Ralph, Life of a Poet: A Biography of Rainer

Maria Rilke, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1995.

Freedman’s biography is a detailed accounting of Rilke’s

life with special attention paid to his many love affairs.

Gass, William, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems

of Translation, Knopf, 1999.

Postmodernist Gass provides an idiosyncratic read-

ing of The Duino Elegieswhile exploring some of

the thornier issues of translation.

Sword, Helen, Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strate-

gies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H. D., University of Michigan

Press, 1995.

Sword explores the early twentieth-century poetic vi-

sions of Rilke, D. H. Lawrence, and H. D. (Hilda

Doolittle).

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