The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God by Annemarie S. Kidder, Rainer Maria Rilke

The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God

Annemarie S. Kidder, Rainer Maria Rilke

235 pages first pub 1899 (editions)

nonfiction poetry religion challenging reflective slow-paced
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Rilke’s Book of Hours falls into three parts: The Book of Monkish Life (1899), The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book of Poverty and Death (1903). Although these poems were the work of Rilke’s youth, they contain the germ of his mature convic...

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mysterious 10%
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