This selection includes poems from all stage s of Rilke''s career, beginning with the delicate works of his early years, through the extraordinary poems he wrote in French, and concluding with his mature masterpieces such as The Sonnets to Orpheus

This selection includes poems from all stages of Rainer Maria Rilke's career, beginning with the delicate works of his early years, through the poems he wrote in French, and concluding with his mature masterpieces "Sonnets to Orpheus" and the "Duino Elegies".