"This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definiti

For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic),

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A new translation of Rilke's groundbreaking volume, following the formal properties of the original poems, especially meter and rhyme, as closely as English all

Selected from 'Das Buch der Bilder' and the two parts of 'Neue Gedichte, ' these poems were written in his less mystical period (1900-1908). The poems show Rilk