About this edition

A complete edition of the surviving works of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), translated in a single voice with the German alongside.

What's here

Every surviving work of Rilke's poetry and prose, in composition order, each with the German facing the English and a headnote, plus the glossary, chronology, and cross-reference apparatus.

From the German

Every translation was produced by reading the German text directly, not by copying or adapting any prior edition. The German comes from open scholarly sources.

How to use this

Read straight through in chronological order, or jump by book or by year; follow any name into the glossary, and use the facing German to check a line against the original.

Citation and reuse

The translation, the headnotes, and the editorial apparatus are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — share and adapt with attribution, non-commercial use only, derivatives under the same licence.

Status

14 works translated in this language.