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Did Ranier Maria Rilke write a poem entitled Gilgamesh?


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It is known Rilke read the Epic of Gilgamesh in both the translations of Ungnad (1911) and Burckhardt (1916).

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-02...

"The great poet Rainer Maria Rilke may have been the first reader discerning enough to recognise its true literary stature.

"Gilgamesh is stupendous!" he wrote at the end of 1916.
"I... consider it to be among the greatest things that can happen to a person... I have immersed myself in [it], and in these truly gigantic fragments I have experienced measures and forms that belong with the supreme works that the conjuring Word has ever produced." In Rilke's consciousness, Gilgamesh, like a magnificent Aladdin's palace that has instantly materialised out of nowhere, makes its first appearance as a masterpiece of world literature."

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Although he greatly admired Gilgamesh, Rilke never seems to have directly referred to either the epic or character by name in any of his poetic works as the name does not appear in the word dictionary of his poetry

http://www.dichterseiten.de/wb--rilke--g...