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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Born: December 03 1875

Died: 2828 12 19261926

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets.

His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Rainer Maria Rilke

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 03 1875

Died: 2828 12 19261926

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets.

His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Books from Rainer Maria Rilke

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

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Duino Elegies

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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Sonnets to Orpheus

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Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

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Letters to a Young Poet

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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

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The Book of Images

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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

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Rilke: Poems

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Stories of God

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The Poetry of Rilke

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Cat Poems

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Letters: Summer 1926

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New Poems

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The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

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Poems to Night

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New Poems, 1907

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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke