René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: ), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: ), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical".

His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry.

Praise for Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow. in Books Textbooks Humanities Literature World Literature European

Praise for Rainer Maria Rilke and Edward Snow. Edward Snow is doing important work. Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. Snow is unsealing them. Robert Phillips, Houston Chronicle. Praise for the Duino Elegies. in Books Textbooks Humanities Literature World Literature European.

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation of the Notebooks by M. D. Herter Norton. Parallel German text and English translation.

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Book DescriptionRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the best-known German poet of his generation and is widely . Critics regard Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge as a seminal modern novel

Book DescriptionRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the best-known German poet of his generation and is widely appreciated today by readers in Europe, the United States, and world-wide. Critics regard Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge as a seminal modern novel. The Companion to Rilke provides essential, up-to-date essays by top Rilke scholars on a wide range of the major aspects of Rilke's life and works. The volume follows the chronology of Rilke's career, emphasizing those works that have met with the greatest critical interest.

Rainer Maria Rilke (rī´nər märē´ä rĬl´kə), 1875–1926, German poet, b. Prague, the greatest lyric poet of. .Rilke's youth at military and business school was not happy

Rainer Maria Rilke (rī´nər märē´ä rĬl´kə), 1875–1926, German poet, b. Prague, the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany. Rilke's youth at military and business school was not happy. His relations with his father were difficult, and he was able to attend the Univ. of Prague only with the help of an uncle. Married only briefly at the turn of the century, Rilke preferred an unsettled, wandering life among literary people; he was greatly influenced by his travels, notably by trips to Russia (1899, 1900)

For beauty is only a step removed from a burning terror we barely sustain, and we worship it for the graceful sublimity with which it disdains to consume us. Letters to a Young Poet, The Book of Hours

For beauty is only a step removed from a burning terror we barely sustain, and we worship it for the graceful sublimity with which it disdains to consume us. Letters to a Young Poet, The Book of Hours. tiny particles of larger loves : Photo. You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret" -Rainer Maria Rilke. The Penguin Poets 14 042 079 7. Rainer Maria Rilke Whitman Poems Book Writer Book Authors Penguin Books I Love Reading Lus Emily Dickinson I Love Books.

When Rainer Maria Rilke completed his only novel in 1910, one he had started writing six years previously in.Rilke became a seismograph of this turn of eras

When Rainer Maria Rilke completed his only novel in 1910, one he had started writing six years previously in Rome, he had integrated many of the notes and lines he had written in letters during his many longs stays in Paris beginning in 1902. He had moved there that year to write a monography on sculptor August Rodin. Rilke became a seismograph of this turn of eras. His "book of prose," as Rilke called his own novel, reflected the desire for localization and a sense of self-assurance in a period where everything had been turned on its head.