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The Book of Hours
By (author) Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Edward Snow
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Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke’s distinctive voice and vision–where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness and exaltation in his search for meaning. In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, “the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators†(Michael Dirda, The Washington Post), makes Rilke’s achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow retains a striking fidelity to the German text while also conveying the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilke’s best poems.
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Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 7 Apr 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 368
Dimensions | 211 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 295g
ISBN | 978-1-3241-2346-0
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BISAC | poetry / continental european
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