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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Gift | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Snow (Translator)
Category: Reference
A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its outcasts, muses on his fam ...Show more
Pascin by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Art | Series: Mega Square
Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions. ...Show more
Poems from the Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Gift
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 humanityitself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, ...Show more
Poems to Night by Rilke, Rainer Maria; Will Stone (Translator)
Category: Gift | Series: Pushkin Collection
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Albert E. Flemming (Translator); Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Gift | Series: Modern Library
A series of letters to a writer seeking guidance revealing the thoughts and feelings of one of the greatest poets and most distinctive sensibilites of the 20th century.
Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 import ...Show more
Rilke in Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke; Maurice Betz; Will Stone (Translator)
Category: Biography
Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art, and culture at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned many times over the course of his life, by tu ...Show more
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr from German by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy)
Category: Non-Fiction
A special anniversary edition featuring the complete English and German texts, this collection of poetry, based on the Book of Hours--psalms and prayers for various times throughout the day--used by monks, offers prayers and songs that address such concerns as spirituality in the modern age and the suff ...Show more