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    Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was an Austrian...
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    Letters to a Young Poet (category Works by Rainer Maria Rilke)
    a collection of ten letters written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) to Franz Xaver Kappus (1883–1966), a 19-year-old officer...
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    Duino Elegies (category Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke)
    a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He was then "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense...
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    The Rainer Maria Rilke Foundation (in French: Fondation Rainer Maria Rilke) was established in 1986 in Sierre, Switzerland, on the patronage of the municipality...
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  • The name Rilke is often associated with Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet (Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus). Other uses of the...
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    Sonnets to Orpheus (category Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke)
    1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of...
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    writer Pierre Klossowski, and the final muse and love of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Born Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro in Breslau, Germany (now Polish Wrocław)...
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    also known as Clara Rilke or Clara Rilke-Westhoff was a pioneer German sculptor and artist. She was the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. At 17, Westhoff...
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  • The Book of Hours (category Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke)
    a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). The collection was written between 1899 and 1903 in three...
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    Archaic Torso of Apollo (category Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke)
    (German: Archaïscher Torso Apollos) is a sonnet by the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke, published in the collection New Poems in 1908. It opens the collection's...
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