Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Title: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Publication Year: 1997

ISBN: 9781573225854

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He “received” a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time – he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.