Works Frequently Cited

(16 August 2025)

Primary literature:

Letters, 1892-1910 = Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1892-1910. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.

Letters, 1910 -1926 = Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1910 -1926. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.

Cezanne = Letters on Cezanne. Edited by Clara Rilke. Translated by Joel Agee. London. Vintage. 1991.

Diaries = Rainer Maria Rilke: Diaries of a Young Poet. Translated and annotated by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler. New York. Norton. 1997.

Rodin = Rainer Maria Rilke: Auguste Rodin. New York. Dover Publications. 2006.

SW = Sämtliche Werke, 7 vols, edited by Ernst Zinn. Frankfurt am Main. Insel Verlag, 1965. All page references are to this edition and cited in the main text in brackets with volume number in lower case Roman numeral followed by standard page numbers, as in (ii: 48-58), i.e. volume 2, pages 48-58.

Secondary literature:

Baer = Ulrich Baer, The Rilke Alphabet. New York. Fordham University Press. 2014.

Bollnow = Otto Friedrich Bollnow, Rilke. Stuttgart. Kohlhammer. 1951.

Cambridge Companion = The Cambridge Companion to Rilke. Edited by Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2010.

Decker = Rilkes Frauen: Oder die Erfindung der Liebe. Gunnar Becker. Leipzig. Reclam. 2004.

Freedman = Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke. Ralph Freedman. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

Handbuch = Rilke Handbuch: Leben-Werk-Wirkung. Edited by Manfred Engel. Stuttgart. J.B. Metzler. 2004.

Hendry = The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rilke. J.F. Hendry. Manchester. Carcanet Press. 1983.

Kleinbrand = David Kleinbrand. The Beginning of Terror: A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Life and Work. New York. New York University Press. 1993.

Leppmann = Rainer Maria Rilke: Leben und Werk. Wolfgang Leppmann. Munich. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag. 1981.

Louth = Rilke: The Life of the Work. Charlie Louth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Marbach = Rainer Maria Rilke: 1875 – 1926. Kataloge zu den Sonderausstellungen im Schiller-Nationalmusuem. Edited by Berhard Zelter. Ernst Klett Verlag. Stuttgart. 1975.

Polikoff = In the Image of Orpheus: Rilke: A Soul History. Daniel Jospeh Polikoff. Wilmette, Illinois. Chiron Publications. 2011.

Prater = A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1986.