This selection includes poems from all stage s of Rilke''s career, beginning with the delicate works of hi s early years, through the extraordinary poems he wrote in F rench, and concluding with his mature masterpieces such as T he Sonnets to Orpheus '
Author Biography
Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926), one of Germany's greatest lyrical poets, was born in Prague. He studied literature and the history of art in Munich and Berlin, and lived for some time in Paris where he was a secretary to the sculptor Rodin. He died in Switzerland.
