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Fifty Poems
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781681379944
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99
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Fifty Poems

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2 Dec 2025
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7 Oct 2025
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Fresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth.

Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, revered throughout the world. Geoffrey Lehmann has selected fifty of Rilke’s finest poems from the two volumes of New Poems, considered the center of gravity of Rilke’s achievement. Lehmann’s refined ear and perfect mastery of English verse form give his renderings of Rilke a precision and poise equal to that of the German originals. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rilke’s birth, a master poet lives anew.
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781681379944
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the authors

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague, and is often considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He died in 1926 in Switzerland after suffering from undiagnosed, chronic acute leukemia during his final months.
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