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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today is Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time yet are virtually unknown today. They are Letters to a Young Woman and Letters on God. With this volume, Annemarie S. Kidder makes available to an English-speaking audience two of the earliest collections of Rilke letters published after his death. Zusammenfassung "Letters on God originally published in German by Insel-Verlag under the title eUber Gott! (c)1933 by Insel-Verlag! Leipzig. Letters to a Young Woman originally published in German by Insel-Verlag under the title Briefe an eine junge Frau! (c)1930 by Insel-Verlag! Leipzig."--T.p. verso.
