The Book of Images (German: Das Buch der Bilder) is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). It was first published in 1902 by Axel Juncker Verlag.
It consists of individual poems written from 1899 and forward. An extended version was published in 1906, after Rilke had written The Book of Hours, with which scholars link The Book of Images as a phase in the poet's writing.[1]
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edit- ^ Freedman, Ralph (2001). "Das Stunden-Buch and Das Buch der Bilder: Harbingers of Rilke's Maturity". In Metzger, Erika A.; Metzger, Michael M (eds.). A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke. Rochester, New York: Camden House Publishing. pp. 90–92. ISBN 1-57113-052-7. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
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