RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets, writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose.  Rilke's work invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety.  These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.

Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections DUINO ELEGIES (1922) and SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (1922), the semi-autobiographical novel THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE (1910), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (1929).


The following books are a mix of PDF or ePUB/MOBI formats as indicated:

* DUINO ELEGIES & THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (Houghton Mifflin, 1977).  Bilingual edition.  Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. -- PDF

* LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (Penguin Classics, 2011).  Translated, Edited and with Notes and an Afterword by Charlie Louth. -- ePUB + MOBI

* THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE (Penguin Classics, 2009).  Translated and edited by Michael Hulse. -- ePUB + MOBI

* ON LOVE & OTHER DIFFICULTIES (W. W. Norton, 1975).  Translated by John J. L. Mood. -- PDF

* THE POET'S GUIDE TO LIFE: The Wisdom of Rilke (Modern Library, 2005).  Edited and translated by Ulrich Baer. -- ePUB + MOBI

* SELECTED POEMS (University of California Press, 1971).  Bilingual edition.  Translated by C. F. MacIntyre. -- PDF

* THE SELECTED POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE (Random House, 1982).  Bilingual edition.  Translated and edited by Stephen Mitchell. -- ePUB + MOBI

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Note: For two essays by Rilke on the sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) -- "Tribute to the Great Sculptor", an essay written in 1902 at the start of the poet's association with Rodin, and "The Walking Man", a speech Rilke delivered in honor of Rodin in 1907 -- see:
 
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