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Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
This book was compiled by a Rilke lover for Rilke lovers. John Mood has chosen selections from Rilke and combined them with his own writings and commentary. Included are Rilke's letters on love; poems on love and other difficulties, translated by Mood; shorter selections from Rilke's work; and an essay by Mood. The letters on love present Rilke's exploration of the deepest levels of what love is. His working toward love at these depths was poetic,...
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.
Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition 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 have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and artists of all kinds, including Lady Gaga...
11) Rilke: new poems
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral window. Translator Joseph Cadora has created the definitive...
15) In praise of mortality: selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry is among the finest lyrical verse of the last century. His Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies, most of which were written simultaneously in February 1922, were mutually inspired and deserve to be read together. And so they are presented together here, alongside the original German."
"In Praise of Mortality illumines certain themes threading through these beloved works that speak directly to our world today. The poet's...