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Author Description A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet <b>Rainer Maria Rilke</b>, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/467164.The_Book_of_Hours" title="The Book of Hours" rel="nofollow noopener">The Book of Hours</a> </i> (1905) and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53111.The_Duino_Elegies" title="The Duino Elegies" rel="nofollow noopener">The Duino Elegies</a> </i> (1923). <br /><br />People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />His two most famous sequences include the <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205134.Sonnets_to_Orpheus" title="Sonnets to Orpheus" rel="nofollow noopener">Sonnets to Orpheus</a> </i>, and his most famous prose works include the <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet" title="Letters to a Young Poet" rel="nofollow noopener">Letters to a Young Poet</a> </i> and the semi-autobiographical <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93405.The_Notebooks_of_Malte_Laurids_Brigge" title="The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge" rel="nofollow noopener">The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</a> </i>. <br /><br />He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.

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