About the Book: Uncollected Poems: Bilingual Edition
Between the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke
published only two major volumes of poetry - the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets
to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he wrote poetry continually,
often prolifically - in letters, in guest books, in presentation copies, and
chiefly in the pocket-books he always carried with him. The body of this
uncollected work in German exceeds five hundred pieces, a remarkable number of
which must be counted among Rilkes finest poems. They range from finished poems
of great poise and brilliance, to headlong