biography
| name: |
Rilke, Rainer Maria
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pronunciation:
[rilkuh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1926)
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| biography:
| Lyric poet, born in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at Prague, Munich, and Berlin. His three-part poem cycle, Das Stundenbuch (1905, The Book of Hours), written after visiting Russia, shows the deep influence of Russian Pietism. Mysticism was abandoned for the aesthetic ideal in Gedichte (1907–8, Poems), seen also in his two major works, Die Sonnette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus) and Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies), both written in 1923. |
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