• Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

    An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers. Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show Rilke's profound understanding of men and women and his ardent spirituality, rooted in the senses. Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but se... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0393310981
    • ASIN: 0393310981
    • ISBN: 0393310981
    • Brand: Rilke, Rainer Maria/ Mood, John J. L.
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library) (English & German Edition) (English and German Edition)

    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 twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell’s acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet’s rich formal music and depth of thought. “If Rilke had written in English,” Denis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “he would have written in this English.” Ahead of All Parting is an abundant selection of Rilke’s lifework. It contains representative poems from h... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0679601619
    • ASIN: 0679601619
    • ISBN: 0679601619
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke


    • ASIN: B004KABEI8
    • ASIN: B004KABEI8
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition (English and German Edition)

    Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."

    • ASIN: 086547477X
    • ASIN: 086547477X
    • ISBN: 086547477X
    • Manufacturer: North Point Press

  • The Poetry of Rilke

    For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke―the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to be published in English―is the culmination of this effort. With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374532710
    • ASIN: 0374532710
    • ISBN: 0374532710
    • Brand: North Point Press
    • Manufacturer: North Point Press

  • Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

    A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1594481563
    • UPC: 884782541827
    • ASIN: 1594481563
    • ISBN: 1594481563
    • Brand: Riverhead Books
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

    One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, his piercing prose, and his intimate letters and journals. Rilke is a trusted guide amid the bustle of our daily experience, reflecting on such themes... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B002URBQEK
    • ASIN: B002URBQEK
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

  • Letters to a Young Poet


    • ASIN: 0393310396
    • ASIN: 0393310396
    • ISBN: 0393310396
    • Brand: Rilke, Rainer Maria/ Norton, M.D. Herter (TRN)/ Kappus, Franz Xaver
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

    "Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."―Fred Volkmer, New York Sun He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siecle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protégé, and as deep personal and literary allies.

    • ASIN: 0393331903
    • ASIN: 0393331903
    • ISBN: 0393331903
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition with All Ten Letters, to include three poems from The Book of Pictures: Kings In Legends, The Knight & The Woman Who Loves -

    • ASIN: 1603864806
    • ASIN: 1603864806
    • ISBN: 1603864806
    • Brand: Brand: Merchant Books
    • Size: Paperback
    • Manufacturer: Merchant Books

  • The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke

    “You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth.”–RAINER MARIA RILKEIn this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme–from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0679642927
    • ASIN: 0679642927
    • ISBN: 0679642927
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

  • Uncollected Poems: Bilingual Edition


    • ASIN: 086547513X
    • ASIN: 086547513X
    • ISBN: 086547513X
    • Manufacturer: North Point Press

  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics)

    A masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels In the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0141182210
    • ASIN: 0141182210
    • ISBN: 0141182210
    • Brand: Penguin Classics
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition

    The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt"When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic.Paris was to change everything. Rilke's interest in Rodin deepened and his enthusiasm for the sculptor's "art of living surfaces" set the course f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0865476128
    • ASIN: 0865476128
    • ISBN: 0865476128
    • Manufacturer: North Point Press

  • Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition (Vintage International)

    Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of Rilke’s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke’s t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0307473732
    • ASIN: 0307473732
    • ISBN: 0307473732
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • A Year with Rilke : Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

    The translators of Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Book of Hours: Poems About God" now team up to offer daily readings from the beloved poet's

    • UPC: 11599901

  • Selected New Poems Rainer Maria Rilke - eBook

    This is a translation of Rilke's SELECTED NEW POEMS done by a German scholar and poet, Alice Derry. Derry herself has spent years studying Rilke, and has lived and worked in

    • UPC: 768375320

  • The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems Duino Elegies Sonnets to Orpheus & Others 2015 (Paperback)

    Books : The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, & Others 2015

    • UPC: 570830808
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Rilke: Poems

    A collection of his chiseled, delicate, and haunting lyrics, elegies, and sonnets, including selections from the Duino Elegies and the beloved Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by J.B. Leishman. This edition also includes Rilke's acclaimed Letters

    • UPC: 25669434

  • Poems from the Book of Hours

    One of the most powerful poetry collections of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful new

    • UPC: 833803498
    • Rating: 4.5

  • Uncollected Poems : Bilingual Edition

    Edward Snow's selection of more than one hundred of Rilke's little-known and neglected poems offers the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated accomplishments in all of modern poetry. These poems

    • UPC: 24755296
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Uncollected Poems - eBook

    Edward Snow's selection of more than one hundred of Rainer Maria Rilke's little-known and neglected poems in this bilingual edition offers the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated accomplishments in

    • UPC: 899961452
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Rilke : New Poems

    The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem.

    • UPC: 52286372

  • Selected Poems of Ri

    For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets

    • UPC: 25692595

  • Rainer Maria Rilke - Poems 1906 to 1926

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the

    • UPC: 53021259

  • The BEST of RILKE, Translated by Walter Arndt, a BRAND NEW 4th printing, 1989

    • UPC: 283830397528
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 12 USD

  • Rainer Maria Rilke : Poems Rainer Maria RILKE Audiobook

    Rainer Maria Rilke - First Poems

    Rainer Maria Rilke - Poems (introduction)