"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century

The first publication in English of an indispensable work on poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the s

... und du, Geliebte, hattest irgendwie wildeste Kindheit über meinem Herzen' Lou Andreas-Salomé hat ein eindringliches und geistreiches Werk über einen der