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1	Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, John J L Mood (Translator) add to wishlist This is a mini-anthology of Rilke's poetry and prose for both aficionados and newcomers. Combining great passion and gentle care, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but explicitly sexual as well. Others reflect perennial themes in Rilke's work - death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $6.41! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Poetic Edda more books like this by Carolyne Larrington (Translator) add to wishlist Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress's ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $4.62! \| SVS
3	Sonnets to Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus", first published in German in 1923, has been hailed by critics as some of the finest lyrical verse of the twentieth century. Rick Anthony Furtak's translation of this legendary collection is the first edition for an English-speaking audience to situate the poems in a philosophical context, lending ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Duino Elegies more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist The "Duino Elegies" are one of the twentieth century's great works of art. In the space of ten elegies, presented here in a bilingual edition, an impassioned monologue struggles to find an individual answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness. In his introduction, David Oswald writes, "Rilke's poetry shows an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology more books like this by Michael Hofmann (Editor) add to wishlist This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counter-force to socio ... see all copies from $3.89! new only from $4.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell add to wishlist 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 $4.00! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Stories of God more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Poems more books like this by Hermann Hesse add to wishlist Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels "Steppenwolf "and "Siddhartha," among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume--filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons--that is ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $2.78! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Poems of Paul Celan more books like this by Michael Hamburger (Translator), Paul Celan add to wishlist Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new edition adds ten more poems and a significant essay, "On Translating Celan" by Michael Hamburger. see all copies from $11.89! new only from $11.89! \| SVS
10	Great German Poems of the Romantic Era: A Dual-Language Book more books like this by Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Over 130 poems by 23 poets, including Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Tieck, Heine, Nietzsche, many others. New literal English translations on facing pages. Introduction. see all copies from $3.77! new only from $7.02! \| SVS
11	Wandering; Notes and Sketches more books like this by Hermann Hesse add to wishlist see all copies from $19.74! first editions
12 view cover	The Ship of Fools more books like this by Sebastian Brant add to wishlist Definitive English language edition of influential (1494) allegorical classic. Sweeping satire of weaknesses, vices, grotesqueries of the day. Includes 114 royalty-free illustrations. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $17.93! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Max and Moritz more books like this by Wilhelm Busch add to wishlist Great humor classic in both German and English. Also 10 other works: "Cat and Mouse," "Plisch and Plumm," etc. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.42! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Defiant Muse: German Feminist Poems from the MIDDL: A Bilingual Anthology more books like this by Susan L Cocalis (Editor) add to wishlist Each volume in this series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.31!
15 view cover	Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, A Poulin (Translator), Mark Doty (Foreword by) add to wishlist Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke's brilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin's edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword by the esteemed poet Mark Doty and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Friedrich Holderlin: Poems and Fragments more books like this by Friedrich Holderlin, Michael Hamburger (Translator) add to wishlist Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Holderlin's poetry for our age. see all copies from $10.55! new only from $22.24! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, M D Herter Norton add to wishlist Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry more books like this by Ruth Whitman (Selected by) add to wishlist This third edition of this anthology of modern Yiddish poetry has been enhanced with the addition of 20 new poems, a new preface, and a revised introduction on the history of the development of Yiddish poetry. The poems are presented both in the original Yiddish and in English translation. see all copies from $9.14! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Against the Forgetting more books like this by Hans Faverey, Francis R. Jones (Translator), Eliot Weinberger (Introduction by) add to wishlist A stunning selection of poems by the great twentieth-century Dutch poet. see all copies from $10.57! new only from $10.57! \| first editions
20	Servants of the Spring more books like this by Ernst Kreidolf add to wishlist Twelve poems, with watercolor illustrations, about flowers, butterflies, and other short-lived servants of the spring. see all copies from $7.76! first editions
21 view cover	Goethe: The Poet and the Age more books like this by Nicholas Boyle add to wishlist In this, the second volume of Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Nicholas Boyle covers the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution, which turned his life upside down, and of the German philosophical revolution which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $7.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Poems from the Book of Hours: Das Stundenbuch more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Babette Deutsch (Translator) add to wishlist Rilke, Poems from the Book of Hours. Bilingual Edition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions
23 view cover	German Poetry: An Anthology from Klopstock to Enzensberger more books like this by Martin Swales (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of German poetry prints a representative section from the work of seventeen poets writing from the mid eighteenth century to the present. There are poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Morike, Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Trakl, Benn, Brecht, Celan, and Enzensberger. The ... see all copies from $4.92! new only from $22.63! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Song of the Nibelungs: A Verse Translation from the Middle High German Nibelungenlied more books like this by Frank G. Ryder (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.14! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by Friedrich Holderlin add to wishlist The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is re-created in these remarkable verse translations Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions

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	Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke see all from $1.99! new only from $3.13!
	Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator) see all from $7.50! new only from $7.50!
	The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson see all from $3.19! new only from $9.77!
	Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790) by Nicholas Boyle see all from $15.95! new only from $167.53!
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