New Poems

The formative work of the legendary twentieth-century poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt," featuring his poems in German and English.

When Rainer Maria Rilke first arrived in Paris in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. As accomplished as his early work had been, it belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-cent...