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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow (Translator)Publish date:4/7/2026Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324123460ISBN-10:132412346XUPC:9781324123460Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:German, Death, Grief, LossWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC9Q5X3VS6
The Book of Hours
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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9781324123460ISBN-10:132412346XUPC:9781324123460Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:German, Death, Grief, LossWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC9Q5X3VS6
Rilke, Rainer Maria: - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.Snow, Edward: - Edward Snow has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations. A professor at Rice University, he lives in Houston, Texas.
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