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Dark Interval by Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound visi ...Show more
Duino Elegies: The Original English translation of the Classic Poetry Cycle by Rainer Maria Rilke
$32.99 NZD
$37.00 (10% off)
Category: Poetry
Duineser Elegien Elegies from the Castle of Duino. The original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, translated from the German by Vita and Edward Sackville-West. With an Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain.
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
$32.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic i ...Show more
Letters on Life: New Prose Translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Ulrich Baer)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Modern Library
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chroni ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
$37.99 NZD
Category: No Category
These letters from the poet and mystic Rainer Maria Rilke to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet have inspired millions of readers since they were first published in English in 1934. The first, and most popular, translator of this work was Mary Dows Herter Norton-a polymath extraordinaire with e ...Show more
Poems: Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
$38.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's library pocket poets
A collection of his chiseled, delicate, and haunting lyrics, elegies, and sonnets, including selections from the Duino Elegies and the beloved Sonnets to Orpheus, translated by J.B. Leishman. This edition also includes Rilke's acclaimed Letters to a Young Poet. (NIA) Hardback 253pp h178mm x w108 ...Show more
Poems to Night by Rainer Maria Rilke; Will Stone (Translator)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Pushkin Collection
A collection of haunting mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English.
Rilke In Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke & Maurice Betz
$24.99 NZD
Category: Travel
In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned to the city many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the high culture and low society. Paris was a lifelong source of inspiration for R ...Show more
Rilke: Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power. Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most import ...Show more