The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet

Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Original Title: The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
ISBN: 0393001598
ISBN13: 9780393001594
Autor: Rainer Maria Rilke/Mary Dows Herter Norton (Translator)
Rating: 4.3 of 5 stars (3928) counts
Original Format: Paperback, 76 pages
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Published: June 17th 1963 / by W. W. Norton & Company / (first published 1906)
Language: English
Genre(s):
Poetry- 27 users
Classics- 7 users
European Literature >German Literature- 6 users

Description:

A lyric story originally published in 1906.

About Author:

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of
disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure
between the traditional and the modernist poets.
He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. His two most famous verse sequences are the
Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a
Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of
Valais in Switzerland.

Other Editions:
- Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Hardcover)

- Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Hardcover)

- Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Paperback)
- Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Hardcover)

- A Balada da Vida e da Morte do Alferes Christoph Rilke e Outros Contos de Juventude

(Paperback)

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- Letters to a Young Poet

 - The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

- Duino Elegies

- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

- Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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Sep 25, 2016

Jean-Paul Walshaw-Sauter
Rated it: it was amazing
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"Reiten, reiten, reiten durch den Tag, durch die Nacht, durch den Tag.

Reiten, reiten, reiten.

Und der Mut ist so mde geworden und die Sehnsucht so gross".

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Love and Death of Cornet
Christopher Rilke) is a prose poem written by Rainer Maria Rilke in 1899, revised in 1906, and
published in 1912. Rilke's inspiration to write this poem was sparked by a document found in his
familys possession about Christoph Rilke, who he erroneously believ
"Reiten, reiten, reiten durch den Tag, durch die Nacht, durch den Tag.

Reiten, reiten, reiten.

Und der Mut ist so mde geworden und die Sehnsucht so gross".

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Love and Death of Cornet
Christopher Rilke) is a prose poem written by Rainer Maria Rilke in 1899, revised in 1906, and
published in 1912. Rilke's inspiration to write this poem was sparked by a document found in his
familys possession about Christoph Rilke, who he erroneously believed to be a relative. It
recounts the adventures of the 18-year-old nobleman, von Langenau, who while travelling to
Hungary with a company of soldiers to fight against the Turks, is promoted to the rank of Cornet
and standard bearer. After a night of passion spent in a castle with a local countess, he falls
without armor and weapon, completely alone, while trying to recuperate his battalions standard
from the Turks who lay siege to the castle and have set it abalze.

The poem was immensely popular when it was first published and was the work which sold best
during Rilke's lifetime. However, Rilke himself, had doubts as to its quality. In my opinion, it is an
exquisitely melancholy work of lush lyrical expressionism.

If you enjoy this epic poem, I suggest you listen to Frank Martins Tondichtung (tone poem) Der
Cornet, written between 1942 and 1943. Martin's music captures the haunting mood of the poem
in its multitude of rhythms and inflections.

Link to the music:

Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke / Frank Martin

Link to the text:

Die Weise
von Liebe und Tod des Cornets
Christoph Rilke
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