Rainer Maria Rilke

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters — an amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest …

Malte Laurids Brigges anteckningar är en roman utkommen 1910. Den är ett av Rainer Maria Rilkes mest kända prosaverk. Romanen är i huvudsak skriven i Paris. Den är skriven i expressionistisk stil.

Named after the Castle of Duino on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the "Duino Elegies" speak in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, "to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, …

Sonetterna till Orfeus är en diktsvit från 1923 av Rainer Maria Rilke. Den består av 55 sonetter som Rilke skrev under tre veckor i februari 1922. Verket har undertiteln skrivna som en gravvård över Wera Ouckama Knoop. Sonetterna skrevs på slottet Muzot i Veyras, Schweiz, under samma tid som Rilke färdigställde …

The Book of Images is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. It was first published in 1902 by Axel Juncker Verlag. It consists of individual poems written from 1899 and forward. An extended version was published in 1906, after Rilke had written The Book of Hours, with …