43 results for '"Rainer Maria Rilke"'

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s...

Rainer Maria Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet.    At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising...

Rainer Maria Rilke was a prolific letter writer-- some seven thousand of his letters have survived. This volumes makes available two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his...

Fresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth.Rilke is one of the greatest poets...

Sculptor Auguste Rodin was fortunate to have his secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of our time. These two pieces discussing Rodin's work and development as an artist are...

From Rae Armantrout to Adam Zagajewski, In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth is a chorus of voices from around the globe and across generations. A compendium of some of our beloved...

Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. AzadovskyThe summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in...

A new translation of Rilke’s classic elegies—ten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred.Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces...

History that reads like a novel: the story of the writers and intellectuals behind the failed Bavarian Revolution of 1918, by the author of the acclaimed Summer Before the DarkAt the end of the First...

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...

Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first...

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and...

Reflecting on the technological age, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the intense emotions with which people can endow manufactured objects. We seem to "charge" the world of things as we would a...

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture“Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post“A lovely, loving...

Six essays on creativity from one of the twentieth century's foremost Jungian psychologists Erich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his later...

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching artFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned...

The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), a significant figure in modernism.First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So...

An essential anthology of beloved classics, hidden treasures and standout contemporary examples of this ever-vital and enthralling verse form. In the introduction to his selection of some of the...