While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems ...(展开全部)

While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems ...(展开全部)

While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems ...(展开全部)

While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems ...(展开全部)

这是二十世纪伟大的诗人之一莱纳·马利亚·里尔克一本重要诗集的华丽新译本 《时辰之书》（1905 年）一直被誉为现代德国文学的杰作，标志着莱纳·马利亚·里尔克独特声音和视野的起源——清晰的措辞与意想不到的意象相遇，诗歌发现了其全部抒情的可能性。在这些大胆的诗歌中，一位虔诚但又坦诚的演讲者向一位终不可知的神灵讲话。“上帝，当我死后，你会做什么？”里尔克的演讲者问道，在寻找意义的过程中，他经历了爱、恐惧、内疚、愤怒、困惑、孤独、温柔和狂喜。 在这个双语版中，爱德华·斯诺，“里尔克当代值得信赖和令人振奋的译者”（迈克尔·迪尔达，《华盛顿邮报》）使里尔克的成就以独特的方式用英语呈现。斯诺不仅忠实于德语文本，还以不可思议的方式传达了其音调和韵律，以及里尔克杰出诗歌中令人着迷的心理存在。《时辰之书》神秘而动人，依然令人惊叹。 A gorgeous new tran...(展开全部)

Love is the life-giving spirit, the axle on which the world turns, the infinite tenderness of God for His creation. It is also the love between women and men. Desires ethereal, ardent, even animalistic, "The Book of Good Love" honours them all. This study edition contains commentary on the text.

From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books— Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins’s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech wit...(展开全部)

From the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first compilation of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines more than fifty new poems with selections from four previous books— Nine Horses, The Trouble with Poetry, Ballistics, and Horoscopes for the Dead. Collins’s unmistakable voice, which brings together plain speech wit...(展开全部)

Review Perhaps no single work typifies the medieval character so completely as Juan Ruiz' Libro de Buen Amor, a product of the fourteenth century which, like medieval man, is a curious combination of the sublimely sacred and the unabashedly profane, of prayers and pornography. Mr. Kane's translation, running to six thousand lines of verse, is a minor masterpiece of scholarly fl...(展开全部)

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. 'There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.' Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteri...(展开全部)