A Year with Rilke

2009-11-17 Poetry

Author : Anita Barrows
Release : 2009-11-17
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis A Year with Rilke by : Anita Barrows

Download or read book A Year with Rilke written by Anita Barrows. This book was released on 2009-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, his piercing prose, and his intimate letters and journals. Rilke is a trusted guide amid the bustle of our daily experience, reflecting on such themes as impermanence, the beauty of creation, the voice of God, and the importance of solitude. With new translations from the editors, whose acclaimed translation of Rilke's The Book of Hours won an ardent readership, this collection reveals the depth and breadth of Rilke's acclaimed work.

Letters to a Young Poet

1993-09-17 Literary Collections

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Release : 1993-09-17
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book Letters to a Young Poet written by Rainer Maria Rilke. This book was released on 1993-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

Rilke's Book of Hours

2005-11-01 Poetry

Author : Anita Barrows
Release : 2005-11-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 327/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Rilke's Book of Hours by : Anita Barrows

Download or read book Rilke's Book of Hours written by Anita Barrows. This book was released on 2005-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text. While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine—a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now Rilke's Book of Hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.

Letters to a Young Poet

2021-04-14 Literary Collections

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Release : 2021-04-14
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book Letters to a Young Poet written by Rainer Maria Rilke. This book was released on 2021-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner workings of his own poetic identity. The letters coincided with an important stage of his artistic development and readers can trace many of the themes that later emerge in his best works to these messages—Rilke himself stated these letters contained part of his creative genius.

Widening Circles

2000 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Joanna Macy
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Widening Circles written by Joanna Macy. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography by the influential ecologist and philosopher covering her life from her childhood in a rural area of western New York State to her marriage, travels, involvement in environmental activism, and spiritual journey through Buddhist faith and practices.

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