A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923). People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety—themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
Books
Rilke's Late Poetry
2006
Turning-Point
Miscellaneous Poems 1912-1926 (Poetica)
2003
Il settimo sogno
lettere 1926
1980
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
1910
Letters on Cézanne
1907
The Book of Fresh Beginnings
Selected Poems
1994
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
1904
Rilke in Paris
2012
Selected Poems
with parallel German text
2011
Letters on Life
New Prose Translations
2005
Selections from All His Poems
1930
New Poems
1907
Wladimir de wolkenschilder
En andere verhalen, schetsen en essays uit de jaren 1893-1904
1961
Where Silence Reigns
1977
Letters to a Young Poet
1929
Letters to a young woman
1930
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
1923
Poems to Night
1916
Letters to Merline, 1919-1922
1950
Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
1962
Uncollected Poems
1996
Magical Realist Fiction
An Anthology
1984
Roses
2012
Letters around a Garden
1977
Die Verwandlung der Welt ins Herrliche. Über das Glück
2006
The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
2018
Mitsou
Forty Images by Balthus
1921
The Poetry of Rilke
1978
When I Go
Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
2017
Pure Contradiction
Selected Poems
2008
Requiem
1909
The Voices & Other Poems
2023
Cartas a un joven poeta / Elegías de Duino
2016
Erste Gedichte
1913
The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
1984
Dream Crowned Traumgekront
1897
Ewald Tragy
1929
Spells of Enchantment
The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
1991
The Inner Sky
Poems, Notes, Dreams
2009
You Need Not Understand Life
Beautiful Poems
2006
Rilke
Poems
1918
Lettere a un giovane poeta/Lettere a una giovane signora/Su Dio
1980
The Voices
1970
Rilke and Andreas-Salomé
A Love Story in Letters
1952
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
A Poetry Anthology
1992
Into the Blue Reach
2010
LARENOPFER
1896
Two Stories of Prague
1899
The Book of Images
1906
Lirika
1975
Auguste Rodin
1903
The Life of the Virgin Mary
1913
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties
Translations and Considerations
1975
The Essential Rilke
1999
Rilke on Love
2002
Possibility of Being
A Selection of Poems
1977
The Book of Poverty and Death
1903
Where the Paths Do Not Go
2018
The Best of Rilke
72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary & Compact Biography
1989
Prayers of a Young Poet
2012
The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems
1979
The Poet's Guide to Life
The Wisdom of Rilke
2005
Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
1969
Ahead of All Parting
The Selected Poetry and Prose
1995
Sonnets to Orpheus
1923
Stories of God
1900
Der Panther
2016
Rilke
Between Roots. Selected Poems Rendered from the German by Rika Lesser
1986
Rilke's Book of Hours
Love Poems to God
1905
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
1948
Rilke Trilogy
Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, Sonnets to Orpheus
1993
Diaries of a Young Poet
1926
Duino Elegies
1922
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1850
