| SelfScape Book of Hours: Rainer Maria Rilke Edition Contributor(s): Jinnett, Jeff (Translator), Jinnett, Jeff (Editor), Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 0578403757 ISBN-13: 9780578403755 Publisher: Selfscape Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.88 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new translation of selected poems from Rainer Maria Rilke's Das Stunden-Buch (Book of Hours) includes images of sculpture and artwork by Auguste Rodin, Paul C zanne, Vincent van Gogh, Emil Orlik, Heinrich Vogeler, Ernst Barlach, K the Kollwitz and other artists known to Rilke and his contemporaries. It represents a modern take on the medieval Book of Hours, a personal devotional book of prayers for the Christian layperson that often was illustrated with religious miniatures and illuminated text. The novel approach of the SelfScape Book of Hours: Rainer Maria Rilke Edition to Rilke's first major work of poetry shows how Rilke deconstructed the traditional components of the medieval Book of Hours - Sequences of the Gospels, Hours of the Virgin, Cross and Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, Office of the Dead and Suffrages - and used that medieval form as a vehicle for his own unique poetic conversation with God. The three individual books of Rilke's Book of Hours - the Book of Monastic Life, Book of Pilgrimage and Book of Poverty and Death - are reordered here to map back to the medieval Book of Hours format and to progress through the monastic daily hours of prayer - Matins and Lauds from midnight to dawn, Prime, Terce, Sext and None during the daylight hours, Vespers at sunset and Compline at bedtime. |