Rilke's Book of Hours

Rilke influenced generations of writers with his "Letters to a Young Poet". His "Book of Hours" offers an invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world. These fresh translations by a distinguished poet and a well-known mystic and spiritual teacher capture Rilke's spirit in a uniquely new way.

RAINER 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.

The turning-points in his career are the Neue Gedichte (‘New Poems’) of 1907–8, together with the journal-novel of the same period, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910); and Duineser Elegeien and Die Soneete an Orpheus of 1922. His final interest was Paul Valéry whose poems, Charmes, he translated in 1925 and imitated in his own Poèmes français.

Preface	p. 1
Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 17
Notes on the Translation	p. 35
The Book of a Monastic Life	p. 45
The Book of Pilgrimage	p. 93
The Book of Poverty and Death	p. 125
Commentary	p. 149
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