Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Overview

This collection of Rilke's best novels includes some of his most magical and mysterious works. This selection includes his first poems, The Book of Pictures poems, New Poems, The Book of Hours poems, The Book of Pilgrimage poems, The Book of Poverty and Death poems.

Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. Rilke wrote in both verse and highly lyrical prose. His work is often described as deeply mystical.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787246720
Publisher:	Sovereign Publications
Publication date:	07/20/2018
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke 4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement 10

Note On the Text 11

Introduction:

The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 15

First Poems:

Evening 30

Mary Virgin 31

The Book of Pictures:

Presaging 33

Autumn 34

Silent Hour 35

The Angels 36

Solitude 37

Kings in Legends 38

The Knight 39

The Boy 40

Initiation 41

The Neighbour 42

Song of the Statue 43

Maidens I 44

Maidens II 45

The Bride 46

Autumnal Day 47

Moonlight Night 48

In April 49

Memories of a Childhood 50

Death 51

The Ashantee 52

Remembrance 53

Music 54

Maiden Melancholy 55

Maidens at Confirmation 56

The Woman who Loves 58

Pont du Carrousel 59

Madness 60

Lament 61

Symbols 62

New Poems:

Early Apollo 64

The Tomb of a Young Girl 65

The Poet 66

The Panther 67

Growing Blind 68

The Spanish Dancer 69

Offering 70

Love Song 71

Archaic Torso of Apollo 72

The Book of Hours:

The Book of a Monk’s Life

I Live my Life in Circles 74

Many have Painted Her 75

In Cassocks Clad 76

Thou Anxious One 77

I Love My Life’s Dark Hours 78

The Book of Pilgrimage

By Day Thou Art The Legend and The Dream 79

All Those Who Seek Thee 80

In a House Was One 81

Extinguish My Eyes 82

In the Deep Nights 83

The Book of Poverty and Death

Her Mouth 84

Alone Thou Wanderest 85

A Watcher of Thy Spaces 86

Illustrations 88

Bibliography 92