Poems to Night

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Poems to Night
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Will Stone
SeriesPushkin Collection
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 165,Width 120
Category/GenrePoetry
Poetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781782275534
ClassificationsDewey:831.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pushkin Press
Imprint Pushkin Press
Publication Date 3 December 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

One night I held between my hands your face. The moon fell upon it. In 1916 Rainer Maria Rilke presented the writer Rudolf Kassner with a notebook containing twenty-two poems meticulously copied out in his own hand which bore the title Poems to Night. This cycle of poems which came about in an almost clandestine manner are now thought to represent one of the key stages of this master poet's development. Never before translated into English this collection brings together all Rilke's significant night poems in one volume.

Author Biography

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1 26) is one of the great German writers. A master of both poetry and prose he is best known for Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.