Poems from The book of hours =
Subtitle: Das Stundenbuch
By: by Rainer Maria Rilke ; translated by Babette Deutsch.
Series: New Directions paperbook ;; 408
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 51
Other titles: Book of hours.
Description: Although these poems were the work of Rilke's youth, they contain the germ of his mature convictions. The God they celebrate is not the Creator of the Universe, but seems rather the creation of humanity, and, above all, of that most intensely conscious part of humanity: the artists. Rewarding alike for the richness of their harmonies and the suggestiveness of their imagery, these lyrics allow of interpretations acceptable both to the religious and to the philosophical mind. While the sense was never sacrificed to the exigencies of the pattern, the translator's effort was to carry over into the English verse as much as the language allowed of the original music.
Notes: German and English on opposite pages.