Charlie Louth is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in German, The Queen's College, Oxford.

• 1: Rilke's Openings


• 2: Beginnings


• 3: Das Buch der Bilder and Das Stunden-Buch


• 4: Neue Gedichte


• 5: Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge


• 6: Rilke's Requiems


• 7: The Interim I: 1907-1914


• 8: The Interim II: 1914-1922


• 9: Duineser Elegien


• 10: Die Sonette an Orpheus


• 11: Tender Taxes and Other Departures


• Epilogue: Reading Rilke


• Chronology of Translations


• Chronology of Rilke's Life

A full-length study of the work of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). The Life of the Work studies the breadth of Rilke's work, including translations and late poems written in French.