![]() ![]() ![]() Lou Andreas-Salome and Rilke in Russia, 1900 It arrives as if out of nowhere and seems to want to wipe the slate clean." Composition One of Rilke's translators, Edward Snow, said the work "is one of the strongest inaugural works in all of modern poetry. ![]() The Book of Poverty and Death ( Das Buch von der Armut und vom Tode).The Book of Pilgrimage ( Das Buch von der Pilgerschaft).The Book of Monastic Life ( Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben).Francis and the Christian search for God. The Book of Hours consists of three sections with common themes relating to St. The suggestive musicality of his verses developed into the hallmark of his later lyric poetry, to mixed criticism. In provocative language, using a turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau aesthetic, Rilke displayed a wide range of his poetic talent. The work, dedicated to Lou Andreas-Salome, is his first through-composed cycle, which established his reputation as a religious poet, culminating in the poet's Duino Elegies. With its dreamy, melodic expression and neo-Romantic mood, it stands, along with The Lay of the Love and Death of Christoph Cornet, as the most important of his early works. The collection was written between 18 in three parts, and first published in Leipzig by Insel Verlag in April 1905. The Book of Hours ( German: Das Stunden-Buch) is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian- Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). ![]()
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