Volume 2, Number 9 · June 11, 1964
The Last Years of a Poet
By Stephen Spender
Rilke: The Years in Switzerland
by J.R. von Salis
University of California, 322 pp., $7.50
One will hardly get a better portrait of Rilke's appearance than that, and it is confirmed by a photograph in the present volume. Yet a photograph remains baffling, withholding even more than it strikingly gives. An enigma described in words is already less enigmatic.
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