The Book of Hours

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Book 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 audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness, and exaltation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324074965
• ISBN13: 9781324074960
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.4"