A ringing glass : the life of Rainer Maria Rilke

This is a celebrated biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the greatest lyric poet of this century, whose works - the New Poems, the Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus - and in prose the Cornet and the astonishing Malte Laurids Brigge, have been of lasting significance for European literature. A compelling account of this most complex of lives, A Ringing Glass shows what manner of man lay behind the achievement of the work, and the part that work in turn played in Rilke's life.