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Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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 ...

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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator)

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.

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The selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

The selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell

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.

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Sonnets to Orpheus

Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Duino Elegies

Duino Elegies more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke

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)

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.

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Letters, summer 1926

Letters, summer 1926 more books like this

by Boris Pasternak, Marina TSvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. B. Pasternak, E. V. Pasternak, K. M. Azadovsky

Rilke's death ended this famous four-month correspondence between major 20th-century innovative poets Boris Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Marina Tsvetaeva. Most of the 50-odd epistles here are from or to Tsvetaeva, but the poetic insight of each is amply displayed. Notes on the poems discussed in the letters are included.

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Letters on Cezanne

Letters on Cezanne more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

A collection of letters, translated from the German, which were inspired by Rilke's visit in 1907 to the memorial exhibition of Cezanne's paintings held at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. The letters were written to his wife Clara and comment on Van Gogh and Rodin as well as Cezanne.

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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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 ...

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Stories of God more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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 tales.

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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

A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.

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Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

'It's hard to imagine the Elegies first written in English, Rilke has sealed them in German, which is part of their essential mystery and foreignness, just as I suppose a Frenchman or German would find Wordsworth's English language one of his properties and excellences in a way none of us could.

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Letters to a Young Poet/The Possibility of Being: Two Complete Works

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Kent Nerburn (Foreword by), Joan M. Burnham (Translator)

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Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, C F Macintyre (Translator)

Breathing, you invisible poem World-space in pure continuous interchangewith my own being. Equiposein which I rhythmically transpire.Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and ...

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The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A Snow (Translator)

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.

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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A Snow (Translator)

A bilingual edition of Rilke's most famous sequence, this volume was translated with an ear toward colloquial English by a translator of several of Rilke's other works.

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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties more books like this

by John J Mood (Editor), Rainer Maria Rilke

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Letters to Benvenuta more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

to ll5envenuta, BY r ainer With a Foreword by Louis Untermeyer i PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY NEW YORK Copyright, 1951, by THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY, INC. 15 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y. Translated from the original German So lass ich mich zu Trdumen gehen by Heinz Norden PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MAGDA VON HATTINGBERG RAINER MARIA ...

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The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ulrich Baer (Translator)

"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 ...

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Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ranier Maria Rilke, C F Macintyre (Translator)

Rilke considered the "Elegies" his greatest achievement. Begun in 1912 at the castle of Duino near Trieste, these ten Elegies were finally completed after a decade of sporadic and protracted creation, in the winter of 1922. They are part of the same creative vein from which erupted, spontaneously and in far briefer time, the "Sonnets to Orpheus." ...

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Selected poems more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

These poems, selected from "Das Buch der Bilder "and the two parts of "Neue Gedichte, "show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the ...

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The life of the Virgin Mary more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke

The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke began work on these poems in 1900 with three short pieces, while he was engaged in The Book of Hours, but it wasn't completed until 1911. The impulse for it may have come from his memory of Russian icons depicting the Mother of God. This slight work has the framework of a biblical narrative and charts the ...

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