Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Talks on Rilke (Fall-Winter 1965)

Item 1 - [01] Rilke.

First Lines:  Importance -"The Santa Claus of loneliness." Auden. Existentialist approach to reality. Sidney Keyes

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965?

Number of pages:  8

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 2 - [02] Rilke. The Young Poet. Sel. Works, I. Prose. p. 57 f.

First Lines:  The nature of the past - tremendous and cloudlike.. How to describe it? He chooses to remind us that

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  2

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 3 - [03] Rilke and the Future of Withdrawal

First Lines:  Excurus I in Endo C. Mason. Rilke, Europe and the English Speaking World.

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 4 - [04] Poetry and Belief - The 'Rilke Problem'

First Lines:  Erich Heller - The Disinherited Mind. NY. 1957. Raised the question- can poetry and 'belief' (i.e.

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  5

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 5 - [05] Problem of Rilke and Xtianity as treated by Guardini

First Lines:  1) p. 41.- raises the question of R's anti-Christianity - which goes to the point of blasphemy.

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 6 - [06] Poet and Angels - the Duino Elegies

First Lines:  'This world regarded no long from the human point of view but as it is

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 7 - [07] The Poet and God.

First Lines:  Rilke's intuition of God in Russian thought (1899). His belief that the modern poet had to construct

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

Notes:  Verso of "The Poet and God" goes with the next section on Rilke's Book of Hours.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 8 - [08] God in the Book of Hours.

First Lines:  Pt I. "The Book of the Monastic Life." n3 - The

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

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Language:  English

Notes:  See also verso of last item.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 9 - [09] Rilke and the Thought of Death

First Lines:  Wm Rose. In R M Rilke: Aspects of his mind and poetry, Ed by W. Rose and SC Houston. London 1938.

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  5

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 10 - [10] Rilke "Things."

First Lines:  Die Spitze (Lace). NG. 98. Simple expression of the way the person by work has given of

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  3

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 11 - [11] of R's inwardness and subjectivity

First Lines:  problem of radical subjectivity. -Tends to a certain falsification of life- of objective conflict.

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  2

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 12 - [12] Rilke- Duino Elegies

First Lines:  The First Elegy. (Notes for conference) -Man seeking his place in the universe- seeking answer not

Sub-Type:  Notes

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Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  10

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a