Rilke's Venice (Brown Stephen)(Paperback)

Rilke's Venice (Brown Stephen)(Paperback)

For the Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke, travel was not only integral to his work, it was a way of life. Venice stands out as a location of particular importance to Rilke, and he visited the city ten times between 1897 and 1920. This city has inspired countless writers and artists,

Merchant of Venice (Rickard Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Rilke on Love (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry and letters have inspired countless readers around the world with their wisdom and insight into how we can be more than ourselves without recourse to religion, politics, or ideology: through the experiences of art and love. Gathered here for the first time in original

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of

Brands and Branding (Brown Stephen)(Paperback)

A fun and humorous introductory book, written in Stephen Brown′s entertaining and highly distinctive style, that introduces curious readers to the key components of brands and helps them to begin to make sense of them - what they are, what they do, why and how - using plenty of examples and

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

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

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

Turning-Point (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

While Rilke has been perhaps more widely translated into English than any other modern poet, the emphasis has always been on 'major works' - the New Poems volumes, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Yet Rilke produced many more poems which had little or no airing beyond the confines of his

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

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

Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

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

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

Smoke Screen (Brown Sandra)(Paperback / softback)

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's thrillers for women are described by Stephen King as 'Suspense that has

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

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 (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

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

Venice Borders - Re-interpreted (ListLab)(Paperback / softback)

Untitled Stephen Booth 2 (Booth Stephen)(Paperback)

The Stones of Venice (Ruskin John)(Paperback)

'It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else.' This was Ruskin's war cry as he entered the now almost forgotten Battle of the Styles on the side against

Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare William)(Paperback / softback)