Vorlage:1961 Rezensionen Rainer Maria Rilkes Deutung des Daseins

• [1961-220] [Englisch] Bernard Murchland: Rezension zu: Guardini, Rilke´s Duino Elegies, in: Commonweal, 75, 1961, S. 322 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=Okw8AAAAMAAJ
  • [1962-000a] [Englisch] Auszug (bis "complicated vision") auch in: Book Review Digest, 58, 1962, S. 491 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=gkUOAQAAMAAJ:
  • S. 322 f.: "„In an excellent commentary on the Duino Elegies, perhaps Rilke´s highest expression, Romano Guardini is primarily concerned with an assessment of the two principal themes of the Elegies: love and death. He is concerned with what Rilke says - and his wide knowledge of background sources as well as the poet's own work enables him to be exceptionally enlightening in this respect - but, much more importantly, with whether or not what he says is true. How truly did Rilke see? Guardini´s judgment is negative. He writes: "This most consistent of all individualists - and here we approach the central problem of this very problematical poet - tends to deprive the individual personality of its meaning. He calls into question the integrating centre of life, the fountainhead of all judgments and decisions, the very foundation of everything we call character and integration. He was such an individualist that he objectivized his own personality and finally regarded it as a disturbing factor. The Fourth Elegy makes the monstrous statement that we spoil the pure relation of life 'by our mere existence.' [...] My one criticism of Guardini, then, would be this: he has a tendency to assess Rilke in terms that Rilke could never have understood. Things may have been better in the Middle Ages, as Guardini strangely enough implies, and relativism may be altogether deplorable. But such canons are not at all fitted to Rilke's complicated vision. America's first and foremost periodical on the liturgy of the Church. In the end Rilke failed. He himself knew that. One cannot ask the angelic for man. The world will not survive without distinctions. Art cannot be a panacea for the dilemmas of modern life. But his failure was of the kind that generates spiritual vision. This is the positive side of Rilke's work as a poet: he always kept the door open on mystery and strove with his powerful talent to explore the realms of the heart. In a world such as ours this is much to be grateful for. When the city is beseiged the best defense is not always available. But in a critical situation any defense is better than none. [...]"
• [1961-221] [Englisch] Edward Quinn: The Philosophy of Rilke: Guardini on the Diuno Elegies, in: The Tablet, 215, 1961, 25. November, 6340, S. ??? [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=auNvoSTSXzQC
• [1961-222] [Englisch] Rezension zu: Guardini, Rilke´s Duino Elegies, in: Times, London, Lit Sup, 28, 1961, Juli, S. 464 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] – [noch nicht online]
  • [1962-000a] [Englisch] Auszug in: Book Review Digest, 58, 1962, S. 491 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=gkUOAQAAMAAJ:
    • „Professor Guardini ... offers some perceptive interpretations. One may not always agree with him: one may be exasperated by his pendantry and his frequent lapses into childish talk (toned down in translation): but his honesty and devotion to his task make him well worth reading. The real objection to his book rests on his attitude to Rilke's use of the German language, which, he says, we 'only accept ... under protest.' ... But no German poet has played the instrument of the language so superbly as Rilke, nor shown so fully what it can do.“