![]() | Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman Subjects: Rilke Rainer Maria 1875–1926 -- Correspondence; Rilke Rainer Maria 1875–1926 -- Translations into English; Authors German -- 20th century -- Correspondence; For Rainer Maria Rilke, letter writing was a discipline and art unto itself. Some seven thousand of his letters have survived, among them works of profound beauty and insight to rival his poems and fiction. For the first time, this volume makes available to an English-speaking audience two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his death, each with a nuanced introduction and notes by Annemarie S. Kidder. RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. Among other works, he wrote Duino Elegies , The Sonnets to Orpheus , and the novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . Bilingual editions of Rilke's The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God , Duino Elegies , and New Poems are published by Northwestern University Press. ANNEMARIE S. KIDDER is a professor at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit. The author and editor of numerous books, she is also the translator of The Mystical Way in Everyday Life (2010), a collection of spiritual writings by Karl Rahner; Pictures of God (2005), an anthology of Rilke's religious poetry; and Rilke's The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God (Northwestern, 2002). |
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