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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.77At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely... -
Selected Poems by Deceased Bertolt Brecht 9780156806466
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156806466Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner 9780241422281
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.06A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic conflict, the search for glory, spectacular self-sacrifice,... -
Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.31One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. "If you... -
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge 9780190685423
RRP: $40.62Booksplease Price: $35.41Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this... -
A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857425799
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.72In these 99 meditations, poet and novelist Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of the normal and routine in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use without thinking-a pair of scissors, perhaps-is both a small, human victory... -
Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus by R M Rilke 9780307473738
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473738Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.68A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life... -
Selected Poems by Paul Celan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.31One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought... -
The Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.31Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.62Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
Here by Wislawa Szymborska
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.80This is an exciting collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. When "Here" was published in Poland, reviewers marvelled, "How is it that she keeps getting better?" These twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators... -
Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan 9780374603236
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $30.33Translated by the prizewinning translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the publication of Breathturn into Timestead, Paul Celan's collected later poetry. Finally, Celan's readers are able to read his work in full, with a new introduction... -
The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs by Cyril Edwards
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.37'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit,... -
After Nature by W. G. Sebald 9780141003368
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.75After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and... -
The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse Hermann Hesse 9781583943137
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943137Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Foundation Stone Meditation by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: $5.10Booksplease Price: $5.02"The Foundation Stone Meditation" holds a central place in the inner life of many students of Rudolf Steiner's work. First presented during the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference of 1923/24, it is a powerful and... -
Twenty-Five German Poets: A Bilingual Collection by Walter Arnold Kaufmann 9780393007718
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $22.56The book spans three centuries--opening with Angelus Silesius, Klopstock, Claudius, Goethe, and Schiller, and ending with Brecht and Boell--but it has considerable continuity. The prefaces for each of the twenty-five poets integrate the selections into a... -
Heine: Selected Verse by Heinrich Heine
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.31'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in fact born in 1797. He was a restless and homeless poet,... -
Selected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.60Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective,... -
Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke 9781907587597
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.62Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix make it marvellously clear how the poem is... -
Orpheus: A Version of Raine Maria Rilke by Don Paterson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.56Rainer Maria Rilke's 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson's translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great work.About the AuthorDon Paterson... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.06Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke by Mark S. Burrows 9781958972533
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972533Author Mark S. BurrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company -
Sonnets to Orpheus: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition) by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781958972397
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972397Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company -
West-Eastern Divan by Johanne Wolfgangs Von Goethe
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.05In 1814, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe read the poems of the great fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz in a newly published translation by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. For Goethe, the book was a revelation. He felt a deep connection with Hafiz and Persian... -
Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation Rainer Maria Rilke 9781324005407
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.66Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten... -
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler 9781913505769
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.06On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian uranium extraction, these propulsive poems are highly... -
Selected Poetry by Goethe
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.31This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose translation which has been in print continously since then (life sales 43,000).About the AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)... -
Drama Queen: Poetry About Toxic Love by Ginnie Bale 9783982415208
RRP: $14.84Booksplease Price: $13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783982415208Author Ginnie BaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 978-3-9824152Publisher 978-3-9824152Weight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 9mm -
Hiddensee by Annie Freud
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.60A powerful collection from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud. Hiddensee represents Annie Freud's most ambitious work to date, not least because it is a book about ambition and its necessity, the need to go beyond oneself, and to do what one... -
German Romantic Poets by Charlotte Lee 9781841598314
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.47German Romantic poetry is both fluid and formed, and it is full of song: the poems themselves are often intrinsically lyrical, and many of them inspired some of the best-known musical compositions of the nineteenth century. In this collection, we see... -
Metaphysical Poets: York Notes Advanced by Pamela King 9780582431584 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.55Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary... -
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.37An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth."Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical... -
Goethe: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson 9780199689255
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.62In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our... -
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Rilke 9781907587221
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.75In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature, art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice - all are encompassed in poems that... -
The Poems by Robert Walser
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.71The first complete publication of Robert Walser's poems translated into English. Admired by the likes of Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin and acclaimed "unforgettable, heart-rending" by J. M. Coetzee, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) remains one... -
The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way of Science by Henri Bortoft
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.76The scientific work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) represents a style of learning and understanding which is largely ignored today. Modern science tends to break objects down in a purely analytical way; by contrast, Goethe was interested in... -
Selected Poems by Rainer Rilke 9780060907273
Booksplease Price: $14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060907273Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386g -
Prayers of a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke 9781612616414
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612616414Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 142g