The Book of Hours is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. The collection was written between 1899 and 1903 in three parts, and first published in Leipz
Lou Andreas-Salome and Rilke in Russia, 1900
Rilke's imagery of walls and devotional pictures finds its inspiration in the typical Russian Orthodox Iconostasis
The Book of Images is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. It was first published in 1902 by Axel Juncker Verlag.
The title page from the 1906 edition of Rilke's The Book of Images (Das Buch der Bilder).