Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus

Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research focus is literature of the 18th to 20th century, with particular interest in lyric poetry, metrical theory, literature and philosophy, and the relationship between sound and text. Her first monograph, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community appeared with Cornell University Press in 2015; she has also published on Wittgenstein, Klopstock, Nietzsche, and the contemporary poet Durs Grünbein.Luke Fischer is a philosopher, poet, and scholar of poetry. His books include The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the "New Poems" (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the poetry collections A Personal History of Vision (UWAP, 2017) and Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013). He has authored and co-edited works on poetry, philosophy, art, and the environment, including the special section "Goethe and Environmentalism" in the Goethe Yearbook (2015). He is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney.

• Chapter 1. Introduction Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and Luke Fischer Part I: Interiority, World-Disclosure, and Constructivism Chapter 2. On Inwardness and Place in Rilke's Sonnets to OrpheusJames D. ReidChapter 3. Rilke on Formally Disclosing the Meaning of ThingsRick Anthony FurtakChapter 4. The Modernism of The Sonnets to Orpheus: Abstraction and FiguralityHannah Vandegrift Eldridge Part II: Death, Love, and the BeyondChapter 5. Beyond Existentialism: The Orphic Unity of Life and DeathLuke FischerChapter 6. Love in Paramyth: On Rilke's Figuration of the Orpheus-MythChristoph JammeChapter 7. The Feminine in Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: A Philosophy of Productive DeprivationKathleen L. Komar Part III: Ecocriticism and Animal EthicsChapter 8. The Imaginative Ecology of Rilke's Sonnets to OrpheusJennifer Anna Gosetti-FerenceiChapter 9. The Pozzo Sonnet: Rilke and the Killing of the DovesDavid Brooks Index