About the Book: Poems to Night
A gorgeous collection of odes to the night and darkness ExBerliner
In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a
notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and
bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes
some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought to represent one
of the key stages in the creative breakthrough and spiritual evolution of the
preeminent European poet of the twentieth century.
This translation was the first to bring all the poems together in English and
is enhanced by