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A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text. While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was... Read Full Overview

Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these... Read Full Overview

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Das Stunden-Buch ist der Titel eines Gedichtzyklus von Rainer Maria Rilke. Der Titel des Zyklus geht auf die seit dem Sp tmittelalter gebr ulichen Stundenb cher zur ck und deutet bereits den religi se Bezug an. Diese Gebets- und Andachtsb cher waren h ufig mit Buchmalerei ausgeschm... Read Full Overview

Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's... Read Full Overview

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 humanity itself and, above all, that most intensely... Read Full Overview

Rilke's Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903).? Although these poems were the work of Rilke's youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously... Read Full Overview

Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Stundenbuch. Vom m nchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger... Read Full Overview

Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Stundenbuch. Vom m nchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode Erstdruck: Leipzig (Insel) 1905. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Rainer Maria... Read Full Overview

Rilke s Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903). Although these poems were the work of Rilke s youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously... Read Full Overview

Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Stundenbuch. Vom m nchischen Leben / Von der Pilgerschaft / Von der Armut und vom Tode Erstdruck: Leipzig (Insel) 1905. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Rainer Maria... Read Full Overview

Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erh ltlich. Mit TREDITION CLASSICS... Read Full Overview

Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously as received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but is rather humanity itself, and, above all, that most intensely... Read Full Overview

Das Stunden-Buch ist eine Sammlung von drei B�����chern des deutschen Dichters Rainer Maria Rilke, die 1907 ver������ffentlicht wurden. Das erste Buch, Vom M������nchischen... Read Full Overview