Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Overview

First published in 1986, this is the translation from German to English by Albert Ernest Flemming, enabling the reader to fully appreciate Rilke's poems in their form, sensitivity and concentrated images. This volume includes collected poetry covering sonnets, elegies and a chronology of Rilke's life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136764332
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/1986
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION, FROM THE BOOK OF PRAYERS (DAS STUNDENBUCH) FROM THE BOOK OF IMAGES (DAS BUCH DER BILDER), AUTUMN: (HERBST, THE VOICES (DIE STIMMEN) Nine pages with a title page (Neun Blatter, mit einem Titelblatt), FROM THE TWO BOOKS OF NEW POEMS (NEUE GEDICHTE), THE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN MARY: (DAS MARIENLEBEN) 1912, SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (SONETTE AN ORPHEUS) Muzot 1922; FROM THE DUINO ELEGIES, COLLECTED POEMS COVERING THE YEARS FROM 1906 to 1926: (GESAMMELTE GEDICHTE AUS DEN JAHREN 1906 bis 1926:), CHRONOLOGY OF RILKE'S LIFE