Poems - Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Rainer Maria Rilke, J. B. Leishman, Stephen Spender

Hardback (22 Oct 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rilke contains poems from The Book of Images; New Poems; Requiem for a Friend; Poems, 1906-1926; French Poems; The Life of Mary; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Duino Elegies; Letters to a Young Poet; and an index of first lines.

About the Publisher

Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library was founded on 15th February 1906 with the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. Dent, a master bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. The tenth child of a Darlington house-painter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with a half crown in his pocket. He promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, 'to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman' so that 'for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life'. 'Infinite riches in a little room', as he also put it.

Book information

ISBN:	9780679450986
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:	Everyman's Library
Pub date:	22 Oct 1996
DEWEY:	831.912
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	253
Weight:	227g
Height:	178mm
Width:	108mm
Spine width:	19mm