Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman

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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria/ Kidder Rilke
• Assisted by: Annemarie S. Kidder (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780810127401
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2740-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Northwestern World Classics; Northwestern World Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works