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1	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.08! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke First published in 1910, this is Rilke's only novel--a unique and distilled narrative in diary form. Malte Laurids Brigge is a Danish poet living in Paris in the early 20th century, whose obsessions with death and strivings after a reality stripped down to its essentials prefigure much in Rilke's own poetry as well as in the modernist movement in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.80! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell This book brings together, in addition to many other poems, selections from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Book of Hours. see all copies from $4.44! new only from $8.26! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Joanna Macy (Translator), Anita Barrows (Translator) A new translation of Rilke's classic work of devotional poetry, by a distinguished poet and a well-known mystic and spiritual teacher. While visiting Russia during his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of this century's greatest poets, was moved by the simple spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, he returned to Germany and put down on paper ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.71! \| SVS
5	Duino Elegies more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke The finest English translation of Rilke's masterpiece--now in Shambhala Pocket Classics. Rilke's ten "Duino Elegies" are among the most universally loved poems of our time, and Mitchell's translation (from his Vintage title The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke) has been hailed as the definitive English version. Unabridged. Two-color interior. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke The finest English translation of Rilke's masterpiece--now in Shambhala Pocket Classics. "It is easy to feel that if Rilke had written in English, he would have written in this English".--The New York Times Book Review. Two-color interior. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke This anthology of poetry, letters, and prose, with commentary and essays by John J. L. Mood, illustrates the ways that Rilke understood and spiritually transformed the most profound difficulties in life including wisdom, sexual love, growth and transformation, and death. see all copies from $4.74! new only from $7.72! \| SVS
8	Letters on Cezanne more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke These letters from Rilke to his wife chronicle a series of visits to an exhibit of Cézanne's work in the fall of 1907--and of the profound effect the paintings had on him and on his work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.93! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke 'It's hard to imagine the Elegies first written in English, Rilke has sealed them in German, which is part of their essential mystery and foreignness, just as I suppose a Frenchman or German would find Wordsworth's English language one of his properties and excellences in a way none of us could. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.92! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ranier Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (Translator) Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translations of Rainer Maria Rilke have won praise for their impeccable adherence to the poet's lyrical verse and complexity of thought. This volume contains the renowned Duino Elegies; passages from his novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; and The Sonnets to Orpheus. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.42! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Auguste Rodin more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke Sculptor Auguste Rodin once wrote that "one has only to look at a human face to find a soul, no feature deceives; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity. The inclining of the brow, the least furrowing of a look may reveal the -secrets of the heart." Rodin was fortunate to have as his -secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets ... see all copies from $4.44! new only from $5.73! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Stories of God more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Selected Poems of Ri more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert W Bly (Introduction by) For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.28! \| SVS
14 view cover	Letters, summer 1926 more books like this by Boris Pasternak, Marina TSvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, E. B. Pasternak, E. V. Pasternak, K. M. Azadovsky Rilke's death ended this famous four-month correspondence between major 20th-century innovative poets Boris Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Marina Tsvetaeva. Most of the 50-odd epistles here are from or to Tsvetaeva, but the poetic insight of each is amply displayed. Notes on the poems discussed in the letters are included. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $10.17! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Duino Elegies, Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ranier Maria Rilke, C F Macintyre (Translator) Rilke considered the "Elegies" his greatest achievement. Begun in 1912 at the castle of Duino near Trieste, these ten elegies were finally completed after a decade of sporadic and protracted creation, in the winter of 1922. As MacIntyre suggests the Elegies "indubitably...will take their place among the great and unforgettable poetry of the world. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $73.64! \| first editions
16 view cover	Sonnets to Orpheus, Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, C F Macintyre (Translator) Orpheus represents the poet's journey into understanding of life and death. He is Rilke's touchstone, the mythical poet who could enchant beasts, birds, and spirits with his music. The poems express Rilke's delicate sense of the beauty and transience of life and the transforming possibilities of love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A Snow (Translator) A bilingual edition of Rilke's most famous sequence, this volume was translated with an ear toward colloquial English by a translator of several of Rilke's other works. see all copies from $6.98! new only from $6.98! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Essential Rilke more books like this by Galway Kinnell (Translator), Rainer Maria Rilke, Hannah Liebmann (Selected by) German poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity.? His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century.? Yet translations from his native German have always presented challenges: the elusiveness of Rilke's imagery, the playful way he both distorts and subverts his own language, and ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems: An Illustrated Selection more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ferris Cook (Illustrator) Generally regarded as the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke has long been one of America's most popular foreign-language authors. This book is a selection of 60 poems taken from one of Rilke's best-known works, the two-volume "New Poems", written from 1903 to 1908. Each poem is printed in English translation opposite the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Poet's Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Ulrich Baer (Translator) "You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its depth." -RAINER MARIA RILKE In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight," "the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $12.38! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Letters to Benvenuta more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke to ll5envenuta, BY r ainer With a Foreword by Louis Untermeyer i PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY NEW YORK Copyright, 1951, by THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY, INC. 15 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y. Translated from the original German So lass ich mich zu Trdumen gehen by Heinz Norden PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MAGDA VON HATTINGBERG RAINER MARIA ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $31.54! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Book of Images: Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A Snow (Translator) Now substantially revised by translator Edward Snow, this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of Rilke's previously untranslated poems, as well as many of his best -loved lyrics. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $10.12! \| SVS
23 view cover	Letters to a Young Poet/The Possibility of Being: Two Complete Works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Kent Nerburn (Foreword by), Joan M. Burnham (Translator) see all copies from $6.47! new only from $6.61! \| first editions
24 view cover	Selected poems more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke MacIntyre's selections of Rilke's poetry are from Das Buch der Bilder (Book of Images) and Neue Gedichte (New Poems). MacIntyre felt that in these poems, Rilke reached particular perfection. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.54! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions

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