The Book of Images

Collection of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke

The title page from the 1906 edition of Rilke's The Book of Images (Das Buch der Bilder).

The Book of Images (German: Das Buch der Bilder) is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). It was first published in 1902 by Axel Juncker Verlag.

It consists of individual poems written from 1899 and forward. An extended version was published in 1906, after Rilke had written The Book of Hours, with which scholars link The Book of Images as a phase in the poet's writing.[1]

## See also

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* 1902 in poetry
* Austrian literature

## References

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1. ^ Freedman, Ralph (2001). "Das Stunden-Buch and Das Buch der Bilder: Harbingers of Rilke's Maturity". In Metzger, Erika A.; Metzger, Michael M (eds.). A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke. Rochester, New York: Camden House Publishing. pp. 90–92\. ISBN 1-57113-052-7. Retrieved 2012-01-31.

German Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Das Buch der Bilder

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems|

* "The Panther" (1902)
* "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908)
* The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke (1912)

Poetry collections|

* The Book of Images (1902)
* The Book of Hours (1905)
* New Poems (1907–1908)
* Duino Elegies (1923)
* Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)

Other books|

* Notes on the Melody of Things (1898)
* The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910)
* Letters to a Young Poet (1929)

Miscellaneous|

* List of Duino Elegies translations
* Rainer Maria Rilke Foundation

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