{"product_id":"rilkes-book-of-hours-isbn-9781573225854","title":"Rilke's Book of Hours","description":"At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He \"received\" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.Rilke's Book of HoursPreface by Joanna Macy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface by Anita Barrows\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on the Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book of a Monastic Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book of Pilgrimmage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Book of Poverty and Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommentary\u003c\/p\u003eRAINER MARIA RILKE was born in Prague in 1875 and died in Valmont, Montreux, in 1926. Throughout his life he travelled restlessly around Europe, meeting Tolstoy in Russia (1900), working as ‘secretary’ to Rodin in Paris (1905–6), enjoying some aristocratic hospitality (especially at Castle Duino, near Trieste, as guest of Marie von Thurn und Taxis, between 1910 and 1914), working as a clerk in Austria during the war, but finally settling at the Château de Muzot, Valais, after 1922.\u003cp\u003eThe turning-points in his career are the \u003ci\u003eNeue Gedichte\u003c\/i\u003e (‘New Poems’) of 1907–8, together with the journal-novel of the same period, \u003ci\u003eDie Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e (1910); and \u003ci\u003eDuineser Elegeien\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDie Soneete an Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e of 1922. His final interest was Paul Valéry whose poems, \u003ci\u003eCharmes\u003c\/i\u003e, he translated in 1925 and imitated in his own \u003ci\u003ePoèmes français\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302364467429,"sku":"NP9781573225854","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781573225854.jpg?v=1767735791","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/rilkes-book-of-hours-isbn-9781573225854","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}