The Book of Hours
$23.94
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
7 June 2026
Summary
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.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324123460 |
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| ISBN-10: | 132412346X |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 7 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“For those like me, who have only been able to read Rilke in translation, what a gift Edward Snow has been over the years. His lucid, sharp and musical versions are a joy to read and reread, and constantly seem to propose the idea that these poems are as close to Rilke’s astonishing originals as English readers are likely to get.” – P.J. Harvey
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language. Edward Snow has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations. A professor at Rice University, he lives in Houston, Texas.
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