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Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. A few years ago the sculptor expressed to the translators the wish that som...
A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as E...
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suff...
Selected Poems
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Rainer Maria Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him to take a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 h...
This representative selection from Rilke's large and extraordinary correspondence provides a kind of spiritual autobiography of the poet. The period h...
"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as th...
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These poems, written in Rilke's less mystical period (1900-1908) show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting....
A New Translation and Commentary
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilkeโs (1875โ1926) Lett...
Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book ...
Rainer Rilke is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. The letters in this book were written by Rilke to Franz Kappus, a...
For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic ...
Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908....
Written with astonishing rapidity in two weeks of February 1922, Sonnets to Orpheus is a series of fifty-five brilliant and affirmative songs....
Bilingual Edition
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in h...
Love Poems to God
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discover...
Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate...
The "Duino Elegies "are the culmination of the development of Rilke's poetry. A summary of his spiritual troubles, perhaps no volume of poems in a Eur...
Originally published as four clothbound editions (The Roses and The Windows, The Astonishment of Origins, Orchards, and The Migration of Powers), this...
Rilke's great cycle of ten elegies, perhaps his most profound poetic achievement, had its inception on the morning of January 21, 1912, but was interr...
Thirteen connected tales "busied with transferring God from the sphere of rumor into the realm of direct and daily experiencing". For other editions, ...
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentiet...
The first English translation of two stories from Rilke's earliest prose work....
Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art, and culture at the beginning of the 20th century In 1902, the young poet Rainer...
The Book of Fresh Beginnings
This new selection, drawing primarily on Rilke's extremely rich middle period, the first decade of the 20th Century, and concluding with a selection f...
'They are perhaps most mysterious, even to me,' wrote Rainer Maria Rilke of the Sonnets to Orpheus, 'in the manner in which they arrived and imposed t...
The fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written by Rilke in February 1922 in the solitude of the medieval tower of Muzot, in the Swill Valais....
โThe ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.โ โAndrew Solomon, The New Yorker A work that has inspired generations, this new e...
"The Book of hours, written in three bursts between 1899-1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-...
The Wisdom of Rilke
โYou have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.โ โRAINER MARIA RILKE In this treasury of uncommon wisd...
Prayers to a Lowly God
This a complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours that restores to the English-speaking reader a critical work in the development ...
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twen...
Rilkeโs Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (190...
"An inspirational collection of poetry, based on the Book of Hours - psalms and prayers for various times throughout the day - used by monks, offers p...
A New Translation
Composed in 1899 when Rilke was only twenty-three, the interconnected tales of Stories of God were inspired by a trip to Russia the young poet had mad...