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Five Pieces by Rilke
Humphires, Rolfe | July 26, 1947 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Five Prose Pieces," translated by Carl Niemeyer from Volume Four of the "Gesatnrrielte Werke" of Rainer Maria Rilke. Of these prose pieces of Rilke, the first is dated 1899, the last twenty years later; the other three are undated. No Rilke item is without interest, even those that derive from his silly side, which should be forgiven him and forgotten, as soon as possible, but which instead endear him to the cults and lovers of the fancy-shmancy. These five pieces testify, again, to a sensitivity which learned to outgrow the morbid and a meditative insight which could make the pathetic fallacy look like the gospel truth.

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FIVE Prose Pieces (Book); GESATNRRIELTE Werke (Book); RILKE, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926; RELIGIONS; PROSE literature; FIGURES of speech; PERSONIFICATION in literature
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