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The Book of Hours

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 07.04.2026

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Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision-where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness and exaltation in his search for meaning.
In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, "the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators" (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post), makes Rilke's achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow retains a striking fidelity to the German text while also conveying the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilke's best poems.


About the author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.Edward Snow has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations. A professor at Rice University, he lives in Houston, Texas.

Product details

Authors Rainer Maria Rilke
Assisted by Edward Snow (Translation), Snow Edward (Translation)
Publisher Norton and Co Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 07.04.2026
 
EAN 9781324123460
ISBN 978-1-324-12346-0
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama

Poetry, POETRY / European / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / European / German, Literature of Germany, Literature of Europe, Poetry / Poems

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