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A Quote by – Rainer Maria Rilke

Topic of this Quote:

Author Name:

Rainer Maria Rilke

Born As:

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke

Other Names:

Born:

4 Dec 1875

Died:

29 Dec 1926

                          Rose, oh pure contradiction, delight
of being no one's sleep under so
many lids.

Selected works:

Complete works:

Rainer Maria Rilke, Sämtliche Werke in 12 Bänden. Complete Works in 12 Volumes, published by Rilke Archive in association with Ruth Sieber-Rilke, edited by Ernst Zinn. Frankfurt am Main - 1976
Rainer Maria Rilke, Werke - Works. Annotated edition in four volumes with supplementary fifth volume, published by Manfred Engel, Ulrich Fülleborn, Dorothea Lauterbach, Horst Nalewski and August Stahl. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig - 1996 and 2003

Volumes of poetry:

Leben und Lieder - Life and Songs - 1894
Larenopfer - Lares' Sacrifice - 1895
Traumgekrönt - Dream-Crowned - 1897
Advent - Advent - 1898
Mir zur Feier - To me Only Celebration - 1909
Das Stunden-Buch - The Book of Hours
Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben - The Book of Monastic Life - 1899
Das Buch von der Pilgerschaft - The Book of Pilgrimage - 1901
Das Buch von der Armut und vom Tode - The Book of Poverty and Death - 1903
Das Buch der Bilder - The Book of Images - 4 Parts, 1902–1906
Neue Gedichte - New Poems - 1907
Duineser Elegien - Duino Elegies - 1922
Sonette an Orpheus - Sonnets to Orpheus - 1922

Prose:
Geschichten vom Lieben Gott - Stories of God - Collection of tales, 1900
Auguste Rodin - 1903
Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke - The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke - Lyric story, 1906
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Novel, 1910

Letters:

Collected letters:

Gesammelte Briefe in sechs Bänden - Collected Letters in Six Volumes, published by Ruth Sieber-Rilke and Carl Sieber. Leipzig - 1936–1939
Briefe - Letters, published by the Rilke Archive in Weimar. Two volumes, Wiesbaden - 1950, reprinted 1987 in single volume.
Briefe in Zwei Bänden - Letters in Two Volumes - Horst Nalewski, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1991

Other volumes of letters:

Briefe an Auguste Rodin - Insel Verlag, 1928
Briefwechsel mit Marie von Thurn und Taxis, two volumes, edited by Ernst Zinn with a forward by Rudolf Kassner - Editions Max Niehans, 1954
Briefwechsel mit Thankmar von Münchhausen 1913 bis 1925 - Suhrkamp Insel Verlag, 2004
Briefwechsel mit Rolf von Ungern-Sternberg und weitere Dokumente zur Übertragung der Stances von Jean Moréas - Suhrkamp Insel Verlag, 2002

Translations:

Selections:

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies and The Sonnets To Orpheus translated by A. Poulin, Jr. - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1975
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, ed. and trans. Stephen Mitchell, Introduction by Robert Hass - Vintage; Reissue edition 13 March 1989
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, ed. and trans. Robert Bly New York, 1981
The Unknown Rilke, trans. Franz Wright - Oberlin College Press, expanded ed. 1990
The Book of Fresh Beginnings: Selected Poems, trans. David Young - Oberlin College Press, 1994
The Essential Rilke, ed. and trans. Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann - Hopewell, NJ, 1999
Uncollected Poems, trans. Edward Snow - North Point Press, New York, 1996
The Poetry of Rilke, trans. Edward Snow - North Point Press, New York, 2009
Two Prague Stories, trans. Isabel Cole - Vitalis, Český Těšín, 2002
Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry, ed. and trans. Annemarie S. Kidder - Livonia, MI 2005
Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, Letters to a young poet: Box set, ed. and trans. Stephen Mitchell
"Rilke's Late Poetry: Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus, and Selected Last Poems", ed. and trans. Graham Good - Ronsdale Press, Vancouver B.C., 2005

Duino Elegies:

Duineser Elegien: Elegies from the Castle of Duino, trans. Vita Sackville-West - Hogarth Press, London, 1931
Duino Elegies, trans. J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender - W. W. Norton, New York, 1939
Duino Elegies, trans. Jessie Lemont - Fine Editions Press, New York, 1945
Duineser Elegien: The Elegies of Duino, trans. Nora Wydenbruck - Amandus, Vienna, 1948
Duinesian Elegies, trans. Elaine E. Boney - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1975
Duino Elegies, trans. David Young - W. W. Norton, New York, 1978
Duino Elegies, trans. Gary Miranda - Azul Editions, Falls Church, VA, 1996
Duino Elegies, trans. Robert Hunter w/ block prints by Mareen Hunter - Hulogosi Press, 1989.
Duino-Elegieë trans. H.J. Pieterse from German to Afrikaans - Protea, Pretoria, 2007 ISBN 978-1-86919-151-1
[edit]Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. with notes and commentary J.B. Leishman - Hogarth Press, London, 1936
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. C. F. MacIntyre, - U.C. Berkeley Press, 1961
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. M.D. Herder Norton - W. W. Norton, New York, 1962
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. Jessie Lemont - Fine Editions PRess, New York, 1945
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. with notes Stephen Mitchell - Simon and Schuster, New York, 1985
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. with notes and commentary Edward Snow - North Point Press, New York, 2004ISBN: [0865477213]
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. Willis Barnstone - Shambhala Publications, Boston, 2004
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. Leslie Norris and Alan Keele - ed. Lucien Jenkins - Camden House, Inc 1989
Sonnets to Orpheus, trans. Robert Hunter[15]
Orpheus, trans. Don Paterson - Faber, 2006
[edit]Other works
Stories of God, trans. M.D. Herter Norton - W. W. Norton, New York, 1932 ISBN 0-393-30882-0
Stories of God, trans. Michael H. Kohn - Shambhala, Boston, 2003 ISBN 978-1-59030-038-1
Stories of God, trans. Various, edited by Jack Beacham - Aventure Works, Hudson, Ohio, 2009 ISBN 1-4392-2561-3
Letters to a Young Poet, trans. M.D. Herter Norton - W.W. Norton, New York, 1934 ISBN 0-393-31039-6
Poems from The Book of Hours trans. Babette Deutsch - New Directions, New York, 1941
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, trans. M.D. Herter Norton - W.W. Norton, New York, 1949 ISBN 0-393-30881-2
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, trans. Stephen Mitchell - New York, 1983
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christophe Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell - Graywolf Press, 1985 ISBN 0-915308-77-0
The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God, trans. Annemarie S. Kidder - Evanston, 2001
Larenopfer, trans. and commentary by Alfred de Zayas, with drawings by Martin Andrysek - Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2005, 2nd revised and enlarged edition with a preface by Ralph Freedman, 2008
Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary, trans. Susan Ranson, edited with an introduction and notes by Ben Hutchinson - Camden House, New York/Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge, UK, 2008 ISBN 978-1-57113-380-9
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy; New York: Riverhead Books- 1996; ISBN 1-59448-156-3

Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,
Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel
Lidern.

Epitaph.

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