A collection of the poetry and prose of Rainer Maria Rilke. Combining passion and gentle care, the poems on love are both sensual and explicitly sexual. Others reflect perennial themes in Rilke's work - death and life, growth and transformation.
These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version. The poems appear in German and English on facing pages.