Beyond ekphrasis: Logos and Eikon in Rilke's poetry.(Rainer Maria Rilke)(Critical Essay)

College Literature | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

The Kremlin's Dormition Cathedral (Figure 1), Easter Sunday, 1899: priests sing, icons glitter, censers swing. Immersed in the all-enveloping Orthodox liturgy, Rainer Maria Rilke encountered logos, the creative word, in his ears, eyes, and all his senses. A passionate twenty-three year old on a seductive journey with a new lover through his self-proclaimed spiritual homeland, Rilke was ripe for the kind of numinal impact described by his contemporary William James as "hours of rapture" (1958, 69). This synesthetic revelation in the heart of Russian Orthodoxy profoundly ...

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