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  Letters to a Young Poet

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters--an amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest poetry. The ten letters reproduced here were written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic... (more)
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  The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

  by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell

  "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.
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  Rilke's Book of Hours

  Love Poems to God

  by Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows, Joanna R. Macy

  While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one... (more)
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  The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of the 20th century. Malte Laurids Brigge is a young Danish nobleman and poet living in Paris. Obsessed with death and with the reality that lurks behind appearances, Brigge muses on his family and their history and on the... (more)
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  Sonnets to Orpheus

  by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell

  Breathing, you invisible poem! World-space in pure continuous interchange with my own being. Equipose in 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 the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions death not... (more)
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  Selections. (English & German.)

  by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell

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  Letters, Summer 1926

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond,... (more)
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  Wolves of Mercy Falls: Book 1

  Shiver

  by Maggie Stiefvater

  The Cold.Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf -- her wolf -- watches back. He feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn't know why.The heat. Sam has lived two lives. As a wolf, he keeps the silent company of the girl he loves. And then, for a short time each year, he is human, never daring to talk to Grace . . . until now. The... (more)
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  Ahead of All Parting

  by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell

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  The Selected Poetry (Picador Classics)

  by RAINER MARIA RILKE

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  Poems. (English & French.)

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Originallly published as four clothbound editions ( The Roses and The Windows , The Astonishment of Origins , Orchards , and The Migration of Powers ), this large paperback brings together all of Rilke's French poems, as well as his hitherto unpublished Dedications and Fragments , in an exquisite English translation by A. Poulin, Jr. Before Poulin's important efforts, it wasn't widely known that Rilke—often... (more)
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  Poems. (English & German.)

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  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 presentation copies, and chiefly in the pocket-books he always carried with him. This body of uncollected work exceeds... (more)
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  Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke.

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

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  The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."
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  Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1910-1926

  by Rilke Maria Rainer

  First Norton Library Edition, letters of the famous poet.
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  Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

  by William H. Gass

  The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.
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  Letters on Life: New Prose Translations (Modern Library Classics)

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme–from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience... (more)
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  New Poems, 1907

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Translated by Edward Snow Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him in a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that he published in two volumes under the title Neue Gedichte: "New Poems." As translator Edward Snow writes, these books "together constitute one of the... (more)