Rainer Maria Rilke

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Prose novel-poem following troubled aristocrat's inner fragmentation and growth

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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke

German-language poet from Bohemia whose Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus are the supreme achievements of twentieth-century German poetry. His Letters to a Young Poet remain an enduring guide to the creative life.

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