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Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Literature & Fiction

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Poetry

Harper&Row

Letters on Cezanne

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

Selected Poems

Penguin??Books

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and ‘willingness to remain a perpetual beginner’. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous ‘Duino Elegies’ and ‘The Sonnets to Orpheus’, in which his most intense experiences of living and being find their noblest expression.

History & Criticism

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Based on Rilke's own experience, this is the story of an impoverished Danish poet and nobleman leading a solitary existence in Paris at the turn of the century. Fascinated by squalor, he observes the misfits and out-casts of society--victims of fate like himself.

The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge (20th Century Classics)

Literary

Oxford University Press

Originally published in 1918.  This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.  All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Poems (Clarendon German)

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

The Selected Poetry (Picador Classics)

Picador

Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.
Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

Letters to a Young Poet

W.W.Norton&Company

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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