The Book of Hours
Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Snow (Translator)
Poetry | NEW RELEASES - SEPT 2024
Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness, and exaltation in his search for meaning.
In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, "the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators" (Michael Dirda, Washington Post), makes Rilke's achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow retains a striking fidelity to the German text while also conveying the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilke's best poems.
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General Fields
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : 0.562455
- : 13 August 2024
- : 1.2 Inches X 5.8 Inches X 8.6 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Snow (Translator)
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 368