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Poetry
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
This volume of Rilke's letters covers the years from the completion of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge to Rilke's death in December 1926, nearly five years after he had written the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to... See More
Poetry
Born in 1875, the 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. These translations by M.D... See More
Poetry
Possibility of Being is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1857-l926). The title (taken from one of the Sonnets to Orpheus, ''Ibis is the Creature")... See More
Literature & FictionVerbringen Sie diese schönste Zeit mit Weihnachtsgeschichten, Weihnachtsromane, Weihnachtsmärchen und Weihnachtsgedichte, mit den beliebtesten Geschichten zum Fest: Romane, Erzählungen, Märchen und Sagen: Die Heilige und... See More
Literary Criticism
These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of... See More
These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to... See More
This collection of letters by the renowned Austrian poet offers a rare glimpse into his private life and his relationship with the woman he called Benvenuta. In January of 1914, Rainer Maria Rilke received his first letter... See More
Essays & Correspondence
This representative selection from Rilke's large and extraordinary correspondence provides a kind of spiritual autobiography of the poet. The period here covered reflects all the great experiences of Rilke's early adult... See More
Biographical
This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its... See More
The first-ever English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West - reissued for the first time in 90 years In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of... See More
Literature & Fiction
This collection of Rilke's best novels includes some of his most magical and mysterious works. This selection includes his first poems, The Book of Pictures poems, New Poems, The Book of Hours poems, The Book of Pilgrimage... See More
Religion & Spirituality
"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... See More
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. "A great poet's reflections on our greatest mystery." -- Billy... See More
Poetry
Rainer Maria Rilke's fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written over a few days in an astonishing burst of inspiration. Described by Rilke himself as "a spontaneous inner dictation," the sequence is among the most famous... See More
Poetry
First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience... See More
Foreign Languages"Deutsche Lyrik seit Liliencron" von Christian Morgenstern, Gustav Falke, Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Max Dauthendey, Albert Ehrenstein, Walter Hasenclever, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Peter Altenberg... See More
Literary CriticismRomano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant... See More
Reference
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city's natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka... See More
Literary Criticism
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
In this collection of excerpts from his essays, notebooks, and letters, pre-eminent modern poet Rainer Maria Rilke meditates on subjects as varied as a dolls, walking among trees, and the great sculptor Rodin. Where... See More
Essays & Correspondence
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
"In the diaries [Rilke] kept from 1898 to 1900, now translated for the first time... the overall impression is that of a genius just coming into his own powers." -- Boston Phoenix In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet... See More
Rainer Maria Rilke, one of Germany's greatest poets, began this work in 1912, at the castle of Duino near Trieste. It took him a decade to complete these meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning, and he regarded... See More
World Literature
Rilke's Letters to a Young Poetare arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to... See More
Poetry
"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. See More
Poetry
Self-Help
The present book is a collection of poems of a celebrated modern Bohemian-Australian poet René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke. See More
Religion & Spirituality
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offersthe best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. The result is a profound... See More
Poetry
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which... See More