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  1. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

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    Browsing in First Light Books yesterday, I picked up a volume of Rilke's poems. It fell open at this poem:

    poets.org/poem/archaic-torso-a

    I think, although I'm not sure, that Rilke has enjoyed a longer and more widespread popularity in the USA than he has in Britain. I'm pretty sure I didn't hear his name mentioned in the seventies when I was a teenager in the UK.

    Anyway, as I stood in the bookstore, the poem spoke to me with power of an enigmatic oracle.

    #RainerMariaRilke #GermanLanguageLiterature
    #Poetry #German #AustroHungarianLiterature

    #rainermariarilke #germanlanguageliterature #poetry #german #austrohungarianliterature