Stories of God (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

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

Poems to Night (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Paperback)

A collection of haunting, mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English One night I held between my handsyour face. The moon fell upon it. In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented the writer Rudolf Kassner with a notebook,

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Sonnets to Orpheus (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Pevná vazba)

Rainer Maria Rilke's fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written over a few days in an astonishing burst of inspiration. Described by the author as 'a balm for wounded souls,' the sequence is among the most famous works of modernist literature, and Christiane Marks's fresh new translation succeeds

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

Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Pevná vazba)

In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer, for which he had little

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

Larenopfer - Reiner Maria Rilke

Básnická sbírka Obětina lárům (1895) teprve dvacetiletého Rainera Maria Rilka (1875-1926) je zcela věnována jeho rodnému městu Praze. Jako poetický průvodce turistů provází čtenáře 'Zlatým městem', dívá se z Hradčan dolů na její věže, kupole a paláce, vzpomíná na

Tichý doprovod a jiné prózy - Reiner Maria Rilke

Druhý svazek výboru z díla Rainera Marii Rilka (1875-1926) se zaměřuje na jeho rozsáhlou ranou prozaickou tvorbu. Českého čtenáře může v této souvislosti zaujmout, nakolik jsou tyto prózy ještě spojeny s atmosférou a literárním milieu autorovy rodné Prahy. Mezi povídkami a

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

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

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

Dark Interval - Letters for the Grieving Heart (Rilke Rainer Maria)(Pevná vazba)

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