The Book of Fresh Beginnings: Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke Volume 20 (Field Translation Series) - Hardcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0932440681 ISBN 13: 9780932440686

Publisher: Oberlin College Press, 1994

Synopsis

This new selection, drawing primarily on Rilke's extremely rich middle period, the first decade of the 20th Century, and concluding with a selection from his late Sonnets to Orpheus, offers a clear, powerful, and contemporary Rilke.

About this title

About the Author:

RAINER MARIA RILKE was born in Prague in 1875. After a motley education at military and business schools and at Prague's Charles University, he traveled in Europe, Russia, Egypt, and Tunsinia. In addition to Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke's works include the Duino Elegies, The Book of Pictures, Poems from the Book of Hours, New Poems, and The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke died in 1926.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0932440681
• ISBN 13: 9780932440686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 108