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All three of these writers were deeply indebted to Ralph Waldo Emerson—Thoreau personally; Proust’s first book quotes Emerson many times and is overwhelmed by his influence; Rilke got his Emerson largely through Nietzsche, also very much an Emerson disciple in his early writings. Rilkean “solitude” is as complex, and ultimately social, as the “self-reliance” championed by Emerson. In an urban, industrial world seeming to lack satisfactory religious answers to the ultimate questions, all these figures felt the need to look within themselves for forces and truths that could connect them to other people. They found spaces to retreat to—a cabin in the Massachusetts woods, a cork-lined room in Paris, or the more abstract vastness Rilke describes so often in these letters—and they did so, yes, to avoid other people, but also to reach them.
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Damion Searls, "Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?"
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Damion Searls, "Who Exactly Was Rilke’s Young Poet Correspondent?"