Selections from such works by the German lyric poet as Advent, New Poems, and The Book of Pictures are presented in the original German as well as in English translation
A masterly translation of one of the first great modernist novels by one of the German language's greatest poets, in which a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while h
One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they ca
Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before h
