Fifty Poems - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rainer Maria Rilke, Geoffrey Lehmann (Translator)Publish date:10/7/2025Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379944ISBN-10:1681379945UPC:9781681379944Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:German, Death, Grief, LossSize:6.90 x 4.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCAF0EBSZ7
Fifty Poems
Fresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth. Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, revered throughout the world. Geoffrey Lehmann has selected fifty of Rilke's finest poems from the two volumes of New Poems, considered the center of gravity of Rilke's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379944ISBN-10:1681379945UPC:9781681379944Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:German, Death, Grief, LossSize:6.90 x 4.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCAF0EBSZ7
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest lyric German poets. Born in Prague, he published his first book of poems, Leben und Lieber, at age nineteen. He met Lou Salomé, the talented and spirited daughter of a Russian army officer, who influenced him deeply. In 1902 he became the friend, and for a time the secretary, of Rodin, and it was during his twelve-year Paris residence that...
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