Rilke Poems
By (Author) Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyman
Everyman's Library
15th November 1996
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
831.912
256
Width 113mm, Height 165mm, Spine 19mm
232g
This selection includes poems from all stage s of Rilke''s career, beginning with the delicate works of hi s early years, through the extraordinary poems he wrote in F rench, and concluding with his mature masterpieces such as T he Sonnets to Orpheus '
Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926), one of Germanys greatest lyrical poets, was born in Prague. He studied literature and the history of art in Munich and Berlin, and lived for some time in Paris where he was a secretary to the sculptor Rodin. He died in Switzerland.