BOOKS by Rainer Maria Rilke

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1	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from £1.84! new only from £1.84! \| first editions
2	Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator) add to wishlist Rilke influenced generations of writers with his "Letters to a Young Poet". His "Book of Hours" offers an invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world. These fresh translations by a distinguished poet and a well-known mystic and spiritual teacher capture Rilke's spirit in a uniquely new way. see all copies from £5.92! new only from £9.04!
3	Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist First published in 1910, this is Rilke's only novel--a unique and distilled narrative in diary form. Malte Laurids Brigge is a Danish poet living in Paris in the early 20th century, whose obsessions with death and strivings after a reality stripped down to its essentials prefigure much in Rilke's own poetry as well as in the modernist movement in ... see all copies from £1.86! new only from £6.04! \| first editions
4	Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, John J L Mood (Translator) add to wishlist This is a mini-anthology of Rilke's poetry and prose for both aficionados and newcomers. Combining great passion and gentle care, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but explicitly sexual as well. Others reflect perennial themes in Rilke's work - death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's ... see all copies from £3.58! new only from £5.55! \| first editions
5	Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus", first published in German in 1923, has been hailed by critics as some of the finest lyrical verse of the twentieth century. Rick Anthony Furtak's translation of this legendary collection is the first edition for an English-speaking audience to situate the poems in a philosophical context, lending ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Duino Elegies more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist The "Duino Elegies" are one of the twentieth century's great works of art. In the space of ten elegies, presented here in a bilingual edition, an impassioned monologue struggles to find an individual answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness. In his introduction, David Oswald writes, "Rilke's poetry shows an ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.56! \| first editions
7	Letters on Cezanne more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist These letters from Rilke to his wife chronicle a series of visits to an exhibit of Cézanne's work in the fall of 1907--and of the profound effect the paintings had on him and on his work. see all copies from £4.85! new only from £4.85! \| first editions
8	Diaries of a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Winkler (Translator), Edward A Snow (Translator) add to wishlist A compilation of Rilke's diaries, beginning with entries made in April 1898 when he arrived in Florence as a 22-year poet unsure of his vocation and his destiny. Snow and Winkler, professor of literature at Rice University, provide annotations of the journals, which include much heretofore unpublished verse. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.72! \| first editions
9	The selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell add to wishlist This book brings together, in addition to many other poems, selections from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Book of Hours. see all copies from £6.53! new only from £9.96! \| first editions
10	The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-True Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography more books like this by Walter W Arndt (Translator), Rainer Maria Rilke, Cyrus Hamlin add to wishlist Walter Arndt employs a principle of "form-true" translations in these selections from Rilke's finest rhymed poems. Arndt is an Emeritus Professor of Humanities and Russian Language and Literature from Dartmouth College, and he won the Bollingen Prize for his translation of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.67! \| first editions
11 view cover	Stories of God more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist see all copies from £5.04! new only from £5.04! \| first editions
12 view cover	Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.55! \| first editions
13 view cover	Selected Poems of Ri more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert W Bly (Introduction by) add to wishlist For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century. see all copies from £5.79! new only from £7.11! \| first editions
14 view cover	Letters to a Young Poet/The Possibility of Being: Two Complete Works more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Joan M Burnham (Translator), Kent Nerburn, Ph.D. (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from £8.73! new only from £11.36! \| first editions
15 view cover	Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, C F Macintyre (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of sonnets written four years before Rilke's death explores death through the Greek myth of Orpheus, imagining death as one of many transformative experiences in the human condition. Reprint. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
16 view cover	Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A Snow (Translator) add to wishlist Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, 'to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear.' see all copies from £6.77! new only from £6.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Auguste Rodin more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Sculptor Auguste Rodin once wrote that "one has only to look at a human face to find a soul, no feature deceives; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity. The inclining of the brow, the least furrowing of a look may reveal the -secrets of the heart." Rodin was fortunate to have as his -secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets ... see all copies from £2.29! new only from £2.93! \| first editions
18 view cover	Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ranier Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (Translator) add to wishlist Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translations of Rainer Maria Rilke have won praise for their impeccable adherence to the poet's lyrical verse and complexity of thought. This volume contains the renowned Duino Elegies; passages from his novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; and The Sonnets to Orpheus. see all copies from £6.60! new only from £12.83!
19 view cover	Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, J B Leishman (Translator) add to wishlist These 84 poems of Rilke's, composed between 1899 and 1926, have been selected with an eye to the range of the poet's evocations and strategies in his pursuit of "being." see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
20	Letters to Merline, 1919-1922 more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist see all copies from £4.49! first editions
21 view cover	Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, A Poulin (Translator), Mark Doty (Foreword by) add to wishlist Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke's brilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin's edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword by the esteemed poet Mark Doty and ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.65!
22 view cover	The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ulrich Baer (Translator) add to wishlist "You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth." -RAINER MARIA RILKE In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, " "the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never ... see all copies from £9.41! new only from £9.41!
23 view cover	In Praise of Mortality more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist A new translation of Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" and "Duino Elegies," widelyregarded as the masterpieces of one of the 20th century's greatest poets. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.70! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A Snow (Translator) add to wishlist Now substantially revised by translator Edward Snow, this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of Rilke's previously untranslated poems, as well as many of his best -loved lyrics. see all copies from £6.57! new only from £9.94!
25 view cover	Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1892-1910 more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Jane Bannard Greene (Translator), M D Herter Norton (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from £10.60! new only from £15.98! \| first editions

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