This is the first complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch) in more than forty years. This bilingual edition provides English-speaking readers with access to a critical work in the development of the most significant figure in twentieth-century German poetry. Kidder's delicately nuanced translation preserves Rilke's uncomplicated and melodic flow, his rhythm, and, where possible, his rhyme while remaining true to content. Rilke penned The Book of Hours between 1899 and 1903 in three parts. Readers and experts alike consider the...
This is the first complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch) in more than forty years. This bilin...
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today is Rilke s "Letters to a Young Poet," first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time and gained high acclaim among readers yet are virtually unknown today. They are "Letters to a Young Woman" (1930) and Letters on God (1933).
With this volume, Annemarie S. Kidder makes available to an English-speaking audience two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his death. The thematic...
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection toda...
