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Poems to Night - 9781782275534

Poems to Night

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Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria, Stone, Will

Literature & literary studies

Published on 3 December 2020 by Pushkin Press in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Pushkin Collection' series.

Paperback | 96 pages
119 x 164 x 11 | 96g

In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought to represent one of the key stages in the creative breakthrough and spiritual evolution of the preeminent European poet of the twentieth century.

This collection brings all the poems together in English for the first time and is enhanced by a rich selection of further poems Rilke dedicated to night at various stages of his life. The Poems to Night and the background to them are illuminated by the translator's valuable introduction.