Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December, 1875 – 29 December, 1926) is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poet. His haunting images 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 lyric prose. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino...
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