Rainer Maria Rilke - Böcker

He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she was the uber-muse of Europe's turn-of-the-century thinkers and artists. In this never-before-translated collection of letters spanning almost thirty years, the poet Rain...

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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 of a significant figure in 20th-century German poetry. Conveying an almost mystical conceptio...

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The eighty-four poems included in this small volume will serve as a sound and inviting introduction to Rilke's strategies in the pursuit of "being." And just as the unicorn in "This Is the Creature" has an eternal "possibility of being" but only b...

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First published under the title "An Unofficial Rilke", Hamburger's translations have been critically acclaimed for their contribution towards a more complete understanding of one of the major poets of the 20th century. While Rilke has been perhaps...

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Rainer Maria Rilke's best poems are finally available in translations so faithful yet free flowing that a reader forgets they were not originally written in English. Applying the same principle of "form-true" rendering that earned him the Bollinge...

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This new selection, drawing primarily on Rilke's extremely rich middle period, the first decade of the 20th Century, and concluding with a selection from his late Sonnets to Orpheus, offers a clear, powerful, and contemporary Rilke.

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First published in 1910, Rilke's "Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death app...

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Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts...

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Rainer Maria Rilke, the most famous (and important) German language poet of the twentieth century - a master to be ranked with Goethe and Heine - wrote the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 in transition from his late-nineteenth-century style. They mark ...

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Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus", first published in German in 1923, has been hailed by critics as some of the finest lyrical verse of the twentieth century. Rick Anthony Furtak's translation of this legendary collecti...

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René Maria Rilke was born in Prague on 4 December 1875 and died near Montreux in Switzerland, on 29 December 1926. The foremost lyric German poet of the 20th century, he is remembered primarily for his Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus, the Ne...

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Essential essay by one of the great poets of the 20th century, Rilke, about arguably the centurys greatest sculptor, Rodin.

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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 interrupted by the First World War and not completed until a decade later. The Duino Elegies are not on...

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Rainer Maria Rilkes poesi tillhör världslitteraturen. I trilogin Das Stunden-Buch samlade Rilke under åren 1899-1905 de poem som kallats "kärleksbrev till Gud". Pilgrimsboken är andra delen. Den utkom 1979 på svenska i tolkning av Anders Frostenso...

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»Att en gång med våldsamt hjärta rubba språket, så att det för ett ögonblick blev gudomligt oanvändbart och sedan gå sin väg, inte se sig om, vara köpman.« Rainer Maria Rilke År 1912 skriver Rilke två elegier på slottet Duino vid Adriatiska havet....

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Rainer Maria Rilkes trilogi Das Stunden-Buch utkom 1905. Den består av Boken om munklivet, Pilgrimsboken och Boken om fattigdomen och döden. Timmarnas Bok är första utgåvan av boken i sin helhet på svenska. Timmarnas Bok är en tvåspråkig utgåva.

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