Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Angela Esterhammer, Translator University Press of New England $18.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-87451-661-6
These two tales, here translated into English for the first time, reveal a little-known aspect of the celebrated German poet, who was born and educated in Prague and profoundly influenced by his years there. The stories depict the ethnic struggle...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Michael Winkler, Translator, Edward A. Snow, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (306p) ISBN 978-0-393-04553-6
Rilke (1875-1926) can seem at once so overrefined, passionate and feminine that one can understand why W.H. Auden jokingly called him ""the greatest lesbian poet since Sappho."" Fluently, if not memorably written, these youthful diaries will best be
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Edward Snow, Editor, Edward Snow, Translator , trans. from the German by Edward Snow. North Point $50 (684p) ISBN 978-0-374-23531-4
Snow, a professor at Rice, has devoted a good deal of his life to bringing into fluid, lyrical English more of Rilke's books than anyone else. He is Rilke's best contemporary ambassador to the English-speaking world. Rilke, of course, is...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Annemarie S. Kidder, Translator Northwestern University Press $22.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1888-1
First published in German in 1905, Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God has not been wholly translated into English in more than 40 years. Annemarie S. Kidder, a native German speaker and interim associate pastor at Mt.
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Ulrich Baer, Translator . Modern Library $19.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-679-64292-3
While Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
has served as inspiration for generations of artists, it presents only his best-known letters. As Baer, acting chair of NYU's German department, asserts in his introduction, Rilke was a...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Lou Andreas-Salome, Author, Edward Snow, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $39.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-393-04976-3
With more than twenty-five years of correspondence between ""two old scribblers,"" world-renowned writer Rainer Maria Rilke and his sounding-board, one-time lover, friend and mentor Lou Andreas-Salome, Snow and Winkler have gathered an intimate...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Edward A. Snow, Translator North Point Press $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-86547-611-0
With acclaimed versions of The Duino Elegies and Uncollected Poems already in print, Edward Snow's historic rendering of the Rilke oeuvre gets one step closer to completion with Sonnets to Orpheus. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) composed the...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Clara Rilke, Editor, Joel Agee, Translator Froom Intl Pub $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88064-107-4
This small volume of correspondence, written in 1907, reflects Rilke's admiration for the French painter Cezanne, who was a major influence on the poet. ``These profound letters mirror the search of a writer grappling with the most intimate...
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Rainer Maria Rilka, Author, Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Edward A. Snow, Translator North Point Press $17.5 (221p) ISBN 978-0-86547-271-6
Rilke's drive toward objectivity made great strides during the 12 years he spent in Paris, living apart from his family, working closely with Rodin. Poetry became a means to appropriate the world around him, and with Rodin's sculpture and Cezanne's...
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Rainer Maria Rilke and Maurice Betz, trans. from the German and French by Will Stone. Pushkin, $15.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-78227-474-2
French publisher and translator Betz’s 1941 account, here in its first English translation, of Rainer Maria Rilke’s time spent living in Paris, provides an intriguing if less than fully satisfying glimpse of early-20th-century literary Paris. Betz,...
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Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Xaver Kappus, trans. from the German by Damion Searls. Liveright, $17.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-63149-767-4
Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (1929) is given an expanded treatment including, for the first time, the letters from Rilke’s correspondent, with intermittently intriguing but underwhelming results. In 2019, Rilke scholar Erich Unglaub discovered...
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