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

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

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

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

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

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

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)(Pevná vazba)

Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner workings of his own poetic identity. The letters

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

Letters to a Young Poet (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

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

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

Duino Elegies (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke s Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is committed to the real world observed with acute and

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

New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

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

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

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,

Selected Poems: With Parallel French Text (Apollinaire Guillaume)(Paperback)

'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world' Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his experimentalism heralded a new artistic

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

'As for you, my dear Balthus, you surely know full well the love that connects us. Yours with all my heart, Rilke.'Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke's fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written between 1920 and 1926 toward the end of his life, is a surprising companion

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

'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes, diary entries, prose poems, parables and

Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems (Oroo Tatiana)(Paperback)

Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems of Tatiana Oro o is the first English-language collection of Oro o's poetry. Her poems draw on motherhood, the loses in the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1980s and, most of all, the natural world. She is a feminist and her poems show a consciousness of her

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