{"product_id":"complete-french-poems-book-rainer-rilke-9780915308835","title":"The Complete French Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginallly published as four clothbound editions (\u003ci\u003eThe Roses and The Windows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Astonishment of Origins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrchards\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Migration of Powers\u003c\/i\u003e), this large paperback brings together all of Rilke's French poems, as well as his hitherto unpublished \u003ci\u003eDedications and Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e, in an exquisite English translation by A. Poulin, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Poulin's important efforts, it wasn't widely known that Rilke--often deemed one of modernity's finest writers for his work in German--also wrote over 400 poems in French. These lyrics were composed toward the end of Rilke's life, after he had produced his masterworks, \u003ci\u003eThe Duino Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet the French poems are entirely of a piece with Rilke's characteristic themes, subjects, moods, and images. As Poulin notes in his Preface to \u003ci\u003eThe Complete French Poems\u003c\/i\u003e The French lyrics  are] small poems of careful attentiveness to the things of this world  and] to the elusive states of being in which the world is poetically transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50681248284945,"sku":"GOR003900577","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51324563783953,"sku":"CIN0915308835VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51825282515217,"sku":"CIN0915308835G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0915308835.jpg?v=1751396946","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/complete-french-poems-book-rainer-rilke-9780915308835","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}