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Das Stunden-Buch

poetry by Rilke

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  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    In Rainer Maria Rilke: The Book of Hours, Worpswede, and marriage

    …written between 1899 and 1903, Das Stunden-Buch (1905; The Book of Hours). In this work the poetic “I” presents himself to the reader in the guise of a young monk who circles his god with swarms of prayers, a god conceived as the incarnation of “life,” as the numinous quality…

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