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The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke (Modern Library)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Modern Library, 2005
"It is possible to love to such an extent that the shortcomings of one's beloved begin to appear touching , even wonderful, ...
This is a profound and beautiful book. Ulrich Baer, editor and translator of the volume has gone through the more than seven- thousand letters Rilke wrote in his lifetime and selected those he felt had the most to say about living and loving in the world. He orders the ...
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Great German Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Arthur Schnitzler, Heinrich von Kleist, ...
Dover Publications, 2003
Translations of 8 masterpieces by writers who defined the modern German short story, including Arthur Schnitzler's "Lieutenant Gustl," Heinrich von Kleist's "Earthquake in Chile," as well as important works by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Gerhart Hauptmann, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Clemens Brentano.
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Vintage, 1989
a lifeline
This is one book I cannot live without.
I can't read German, so I am grateful for the translation, and Rilke's genius is not lost in translation. :)
Favorites? I can't name just one. You who never arrived...For the sake of one poem...The Prodigal Son...Spanish ...
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Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke
Mariner Books, 2005
one of many useful translations
"Nonce " doesn't need to wait for another poet to translate Rilke. There are already lots of superb choices, each of which lends a different quality to the work. What's best about these Poulin versions is their clarity. Stephen Mitchell has found a supple, ...
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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
A journey through the roots of the speech!
There have been very few poets with such creative mind, potency and inexhaustibleness as R.M.R. He was a cosmic poet of introspective flight loaded if you want of musical intimacy, his thoughts seem to be Chopin's Nocturnes and he sings his rapture homage to the night ...
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Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry, Including 'The Life of the Virgin Mary'
Rainer Maria Rilke
First Page Publications, 2005
translations of his religious poetry
In recent years many critics have come to admire Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 in Prague, Austria-Hungary - 29 December 1926 in Valmont (Switzerland)) as the German language's greatest poet of the 20th century. After he died of leukemia at the age of 51, the ...
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Letters on Cézanne
Rainer Maria Rilke
North Point Press, 2002
How to create in seeing as poet and artist
Rilke understands Cezanne as one ' who lived in the innermost center of his work for forty years'. The old man who he describes being thrown stones at by children on his way to his studio where he worked and worked, and only worked from the time he found his vocation ...
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Dover Publications, 2002
This book is fantastic!
This little book though short in lenght packs a condensed form of life wisdom. Some of the insight Rilke writes to his friend are priceless. Rilke penetrates to the essence of a wide range issues from religious to material never preaching but more like asking his ...
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
An intellectual goldmine...
This proto-existentialist novel features a main character (Malte) that is frightened by the possibility of faceless-ness; that is, he is terrified by the collapse of a coherent subject/identity in modernity. This work is highly critical of the traditional narrative ...
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Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Modern Library, 1995
poetry from the soul
I recently discovered Rilke, and am much the better for it - his craft with words literally gives one goosebumps. The poetry portion of _Ahead of All Parting_ is dual language, so readers of German can enjoy the original as well as Mitchell's translations. The ...
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Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
W. W. Norton, 2006
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 morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed ...
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Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Being
Rainer Maria Rilke
MJF Books, 2002
Both the Wise Guidance and the Result
Kent Nerburn did a terrific service to the student of both writing and the genius of Rainer Maria Rilke by including his compelling heartfelt letters to the young Franz Xaver Kappus, a student of a former teacher of Rilke. What makes this volume especially wonderful ...
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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Rainer Maria Rilke
Riverhead Trade, 1997
Rilke is timeless
Rilke's Book of Hours; Love Poems to God is a beautiful work of art comprised of both original German text and English translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Each poem is of honesty and discovery of the spiritual world. Rilke's work is always unique, and his ...
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Letters on Life: New Prose Translations (Modern Library Classics)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Modern Library, 2006
A tremendous feat of sympathetic translation
I am astonished that this wonderful book has not been widely reviewed by Rilke fans. Ulrich Baer is a superb translator and just as crucially he has a deep understanding of Rilke's intention and meaning - vital for opening a window to appreciating one of the greatest ...
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The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition
Rainer Maria Rilke
North Point Press, 1994
A superb translation of 'Das Buch der Bilder'!
Rilke is that poet that you, if you are tormented by memories of high-school poetry lessons past (dactylic metre sound vaguely familiar?), ought try. His imagery is accessible, his meaning clear...and he manages simultaneously a beautiful degree of both spiritual and ...
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