Public Domain

[Claudia]

Hello Forum--can anyone tell me how to find out whether or not (or which ones) Rilke's work is in the public domain?

Thanks,
Claudia

grinnell@ulm.edu

[Rilke Fan]

Hi Claudia,

The best German Rilke Websites I have found aside from this one (http://www.rilke.de/) are:

http://www.litlinks.it/r/rilke.htm (includes almost all poems as well as many letters)
http://www.rainer-maria-rilke.de/ (includes almost all poems)
http://www.onlinekunst.de/rilke/eingang.html (nice site with music and pictures)

The best Rilke websites I have found in English are:

http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/index.html (Cliff Crego)
http://www.Geocities.com/Paris/Leftbank ... index.html
http://www.Allspirit.co/uk/rilke.html
http://www.Plagiarist.com/poetry/?aid=105

There are many other websites with only a few poems. When I am looking for one poem in particular, I usually go to Google, AskJeeves, or Yahoo and type in the name of the poem in quotation marks + Rilke, and you'd be surprised what you come up with.

I am in the process of putting together a notebook with favorite Rilke poems in both English and German as I am never completely satisfied with the English translations I find, and I like to compare them before coming up with my own personal version.

I am thrilled to recently have discovered this forum where hopefully I will find help in interpreting some of Rilke's more difficult poems, as well as perhaps help in translating some of his poems I have been unable to find English translations for.

Hope this was of help.

Linda
LSchwalbe@nc.rr.com