Description
This revised bilingual edition gathers an early yet richly evocative collection of poems exploring solitude, nature, spiritual longing, artistic vision, and the mysterious life of images. Moving between landscapes, sacred figures, dreamlike scenes, and moments of inward revelation, the poems transform ordinary experience into something luminous and profound. The facing-page format offers readers the texture of the original German alongside a sensitive English translation, making the collection especially valuable for both newcomers and longtime readers of modern poetry. Lyrical, meditative, and visually precise, the book reveals the emerging voice of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1994
272 pages
ISBN: 9780865474772
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Details
First Published
1902
Language
eng
Translation
Original: Das Buch der Bilder
From: deu
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke.