A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke (Clarendon Paperbacks)

A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Prater, Donald. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780198158912.

Rainer Maria Rilke is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet of this century, and his major achievements--the New Poems, the Sonnets to Orpheus, and the Duino Elegies--had a major impact on European literature, becoming the subject of intense scrutiny and increasing acclaim since the poets death. In A Ringing Glass, Donald Praters aim is not to add another stone to the mounting edifice of critical interpretation but to provide a portrait of the man himself and to show the background in which Rilkes extraordinary vision developed. "Shrewd, authoritative...meticulous."--The Christian Science Monitor "This well-documented, eloquently written, and beautifully presented biography should be of great interest to lay rader and specialist alike."--Library Journal