Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke

Book of Hours

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Book of Hours

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Book of Hours

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Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness, and exaltation in his search for meaning.

In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, "the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators" (Michael Dirda, Washington Post), makes Rilke's achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow retains a striking fidelity to the German text while also conveying the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilke's best poems.
Book Details
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9781324074960
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
368
Authors:
Rainer Maria Rilke
Published Date:
2024-08-13
Language:
English, German
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About Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was born in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. His major works include Das Stunden-Buch (1905), the two-volume New Poems (1907–1908), the prose work The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), the Duino Elegies (1923), and the Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). He traveled widely across Europe and spent important years in Paris, where he served for a time as secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He died of leukemia in Switzerland. He also wrote Letters to a Young Poet.

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