Rilke: Selected Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke; J. B. Leishman (Foreword by, Translator)

These poems, selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte, show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power.   Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most import...