Exhuming Rilke's Orphic body: gender and poetic voice in "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes" and "Hetaren-Graber".

The Germanic Review | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

It has frequently been noted that for poets, the ultimate precursor, model, and symbol of "the essence of poetry" is Orpheus. This certainly seems to be the case for Rainer Maria Rilke, whose celebratory Sonette an Orpheus (1922) often are read as a manifesto of Rilkean artistic self-understanding and poetic mission. (1) However, almost two decades before the sonnets' publication, Orpheus was already making his catabatic descent through the Rilkean oeuvre and psyche in a pair of likewise poetological poems whose themes are explicitly or implicitly "Orphic": "Orpheus. ...

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