Rainer Maria Rilke: 211 books

Le "Lettere a un giovane poeta" furono realmente indirizzate da Rilke al giovane scrittore Kappus fra il 1903 e il 1908. Pubblicate postume nel 1929, si diffusero in breve tempo nei paesi di lingua tedesca come una specie di breviario – non tanto d’arte quanto di vita. Oggi, nella generale...

Siehe Nachwort des Herausgebers Joerg K. Sommermeyer, S. 322 ff.

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....

Composed in 1899 when Rilke was only twenty-three, the interconnected tales of Stories of God were inspired by a trip to Russia the young poet had made the year previously. It is said that the vastness of the Russian landscape and the profound spirituality he perceived in the simple people he met...

Una giovanile fuga d’amore, progettata nella penombra di una chiesa e poi cancellata dalla luce, vietata dalla visione della realtà; una borghese festa in famiglia, dominata dal ricordo di uno scomparso, un funzionario imperial-regio; una vacanza sul Baltico in cui, più che il paesaggio, si disegna...

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 structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it...

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 of time as death approaches. This translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to...

Written during an astonishing outburst of creativity during a period of only two weeks in February 1922, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. Willis Barnstone brings these striking poems into English with an approach honed through years of work on...

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German. We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One...

This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition...

Diese liebevoll zusammengestellte Gedichte-Sammlung enthält die 125 schönsten und beliebtesten Liebesgedichte der Deutschen - aus einem Zeitraum von 800 Jahren. Wir versprechen Ihnen: Sie werden überrascht sein, wie viele Texte Sie noch aus der Schulzeit kennen und wie viele Sie vielleicht...

Aus der Fülle der Gedichte Rainer Maria Rilkes wurde von Germanistenhand für diese Ausgabe eine Auswahl der beliebtesten und bedeutendsten getroffen: nur das Beste von einem der Besten! Dem Rang des Dichters entsprechend sind die Gedichte sorgfältig gesetzt und korrekturgelesen. Aufbereitet für...

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...

Einladung zu Rilke. Die hundert schönsten Rilke-Gedichte: In feinster Ausstattung mit Leineneinband, Lesebändchen und farbigem Vorsatzpapier eignet er sich vorzüglich zum Verschenken und Wiederlesen. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Sammlung stehen die Gedichte aus Rilkes früher und mittlerer Lebenszeit:...