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Poems from the Book of Hours

  • 111 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1905
  • 24 editions

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1 About this book

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine.

The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.

Good for readers who want: spirituality, poetry, and a short read.

  • Spirituality
  • Body, MIND & spirit
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Poetry, collections
  • Love poetry
  • God, worship and love

2 About Rainer Maria Rilke

1875–1926

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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