Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books

Author: Ted Bishop
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393330745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Whether describing the shock of holding Virginias Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising small American towns on his Ducati, Bishop mediates with wit and honest on the tangled interplay of life, work, and art.

Riding with Rilke

Author: Ted Bishop
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0143051318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
English professor and motorcycle enthusiast Ted Bishop is taking one last ride before fall term when his bike vibrates out of control and he is flung into a ditch, breaking his back and collapsing his lungs. With limited mobility, Ted finally has time to savour the reading experience. He begins writing about his crash, realizing that two worlds had come together when his head hit the pavement. The more he thinks about it, the more it seems that archival work is the inverse, not the opposite, of motorcycling. Ultimately, what surrounds both reader and rider is silence. In Riding with Rilke, Ted Bishop takes us on the road through some of the richest landscapes in North America and Europe, with numerous stops along the way. Whether describing the archival jolt of holding Virginia Woolf's suicide note in the British Library or the outlaw thrill of cruising Main Street in small-town America on a bike nicknamed “Il Mostro,” Bishop tells a story filled with insight and humour.

Riding with Rilke

Author: Ted Bishop
Publisher: Penguin Canada
ISBN: 9780143051312
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Riding with Rilke

Author: Edward Bishop
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393062618
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Ted Bishop chronicles the motorcycle trip he took from Edmonton to Austin just before being seriously injured after losing control of his bike, describing the people and places he encountered along the way and the things he learned about life in the process.

Riding Hood

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539838593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
illustration of a Rainer Maria Rilke`s poem As once the winged energy of delight. Connecting the poem with the fairy child The Little Red Riding Hood.

Rilke in Paris

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Hesperus Press
ISBN: 1780941161
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned to the city many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the high culture and low society. Paris was a lifelong source of inspiration for Rilke. Perhaps most significantly, the letters he wrote about it formed the basis of his prose masterpiece, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. This volume brings together a new translation of RilkeOCOs essay on poetry, Notes on the Melody of Things, and the first English translation of RilkeOCOs experiences in Paris as observed by his French translator, Maurice Betz. "

Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition

Author: Judith Ryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139426664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. She traces his often desperate attempts to grapple with problems of fashion, influence and originality as he shaped his career during the crucial decades in which modernism was born. This 1999 book was the first systematic study of Rilke's trajectory from aestheticism to modernism as seen through the lens of his engagement with poetic tradition and the visual arts. It is full of surprising discoveries about individual poems. Above all, it shifts the terms of the debate about Rilke's place in modern literary history.

Letters to a Young Poet

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834843676
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875–1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further issues including gender, solitude, and romantic love. Barrows and Macy’s translation extends this compilation of timeless advice and wisdom to a fresh generation of readers. With a new introduction and commentary, this edition places the letters in the context of today’s world and the unique challenges we face when seeking authenticity.

Four Unposted Letters to Catherine

Author: Laura Riding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892551927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 79

Book Description
Letters written by the poet to an eight-year-old girl explain the difference between learning and knowing, the value of thinking, and the benefits of avoiding hypocrisy and pretension

The Cornet

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description