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Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most import ...Show more
Rilke in Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke; Maurice Betz; Will Stone (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art, and culture at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned many times over the course of his life, by tu ...Show more
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry
Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes in his work--death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's reflections on wisdom and openness to experience, on grasping what is ...Show more
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr from German by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy)
45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A special anniversary edition featuring the complete English and German texts, this collection of poetry, based on the Book of Hours--psalms and prayers for various times throughout the day--used by monks, offers prayers and songs that address such concerns as spirituality in the modern age and the suff ...Show more
Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell (Translator, Editor); Robert Hass (Introduction by)
35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: International Ser.
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritu ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin pocket classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.'This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.A new series of twenty distinctive, unf ...Show more
The Poetry of Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, "The New Republic"), to bring into English Rilke's major poetic works. "The Poetry of Rilke"--the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to ...Show more