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Ahead of All PartingThe Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poe ...Show more
Change Your Life: Essential Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Crucefix's translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives" - Philip Pullman A new selection and translation - by an acclaimed poet - of Rilke's most essential work, the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life In these dazzling new translations by acclai ...Show more
Dark Interval by Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound visi ...Show more
Duino Elegies: The Original English translation of the Classic Poetry Cycle by Rainer Maria Rilke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Duineser Elegien Elegies from the Castle of Duino. The original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, translated from the German by Vita and Edward Sackville-West. With an Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain.
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
$37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
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 most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic i ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Reginald Snell (Commentaries by)
$5.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent Rilke some of his verses, seeking an opinion of ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$18.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chroni ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$7.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Snow (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Classics
A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its outcasts, muses on his fam ...Show more
Poems from the Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanityitself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, ...Show more