{"product_id":"rainer-maria-rilkes-ithe-book-of-hoursi-9781571135438","title":"Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours","description":"\u003cb\u003eA superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His \u003ci\u003eNew Poems, Duino Elegies,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. \u003ci\u003eThe Bookof Hours,\u003c\/i\u003e written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e epigone to distinctive modern voice. The poems document Rilke'stour of Russia with Lou Andreas-Salomé, his hasty marriage and fathering of a child in Worpswede, and his turn toward the urban modernity of Paris. He assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the Romantics' journey into the self, speaking to God as part transcendent deity, part needy neighbor. The poems can be read simply for their luminous lyricism, captured in Susan Ranson's superb new translation, which reproduces the music of the original German with impressive fluidity. An in-depth introduction explains the context of the work and elucidates its major themes, while the poem-by-poem commentary is helpful to the student and the general reader. A translator's note treating the technical problems of rhythm, meter, and rhyme that the translator of Rilke faces completes the volume. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Susan Ranson is the co-translator, with Marielle Sutherland, of \u003ci\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford World's Classics, 2011). Ben Hutchinson is Reader in Modern German at the University of Kent, UK.","brand":"Rainer Maria Rilke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280238031099,"sku":"9781571135438","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571135438_bb5add38-8a8b-4a41-9a31-300dbb4016fa.jpg?v=1772484898","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/rainer-maria-rilkes-ithe-book-of-hoursi-9781571135438","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}