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About Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet
Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and major German-language writer. He is remembered for writing with a distinctive, highly expressive voice, and for work that critics have often read as marked by mysticism. His writing explores subjective experience and doubt, and it spans poetry, one novel, several volumes of correspondence, and a few early novellas. These pieces helped establish his reputation as a writer whose language is intimate, reflective, and inward-looking.
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Books by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a young poet
2011
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
2017
Poems
1997
Neue Gedichte
1998
Stundenbuch
2009