# Selected Poems - Paperback

by **Rainer M. Rilke** (Author), **C. F. Macintyre** (Translator)

These poems, selected from _Das Buch der Bilder_ and the two parts of _Neue Gedichte,_ show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. Written in his less mystical period (1900-1908), the poems exhibit Rilke's particular artistic and poetic power.  
  
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarm , and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.  
  

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Strange violin, are you following me? In how many towns when I am alone your lonely night has called to mine? Do hundreds play you, or only one?

from The Neighbor

### Author Biography

**C.F. MacIntyre** (d.1967) was well known as a translator. In addition to works by Rilke, he translated Goethe's _Faust_ and many of the French symbolists: Nerval, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Corbière, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Laforgue, and Valéry. His volumes of original poems include _The Black Bull, Cafés and Cathedrals,_ and _Poems._

**Number of Pages:** 160

**Dimensions:** 0.48 x 7.28 x 4.33 IN

**Publication Date:** May 22, 2001

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