Orpheus - A Version of Raine Maria Rilke (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Orpheus - A Version of Raine Maria Rilke (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great

Sonnets to Orpheus (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

In 55 sonnets Rainer Maria Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. Praising, that s it he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice all are encompassed in poems that spark with insight and invention, among the

Rilke in Paris (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback / softback)

Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art and culture at the beginning of the 20th

40 Sonnets (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

'In 40 Sonnets Paterson returns to some of his central themes - contradiction and strangeness, tension and transformation, the dream world, and the divided self - in some of the most powerful and formally assured poems he has written to

Selected Poems (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback / softback)

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and `willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest

Penguin Modern Poets 4 - Other Ways to Leave the Room (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Rainer Maria Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet. 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, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and lyrical

Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

' This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced, ' (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language

Selected Poems (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his thrilling and original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria

Stories of God (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk

Train Songs - Poetry of the Railway (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Wordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes ('On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway'). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists, and yet the train has become part

Uncollected Poems: Bilingual Edition (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Between the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry--the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he was writing verse continually, often prolifically--in letters, in guest books, in

Selected Poems: With Parallel German Text (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, he constantly probed the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the

Poems from the Book of Hours (A New Directions Book) - Reiner Maria Rilke

Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanity itself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of

Hard Rain Falling (Carpenter Don)(Paperback)

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good--a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the

101 Sonnets (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met particular needs of almost every major poet from Thomas Wyatt to Paul Muldoon. Don Paterson, himself an

Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets - A New Commentary (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a fresh and direct approach to the Shakespeare's Sonnets. This title discusses the meaning, technique, hidden structure and feverish narrative of the Sonnets, as well as the difficulties they present for the modern

Fall at Home - New and Collected Aphorisms (Paterson Don)(Paperback / softback)

Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

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

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- 'a masterpiece like no other' (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven

Bygone Bridge of Don (Pirie A. Gordon)(Paperback / softback)

Elimination of Electrical Noise (Pinnock Don)(Paperback / softback)

Borgnakke's Fundamentals of Thermodynamics - SI Version (Borgnakke Claus)(Paperback / softback)