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Who was Rainer Maria Rilke?

René Karl WilhelmJohannJosefMariaRilke — betterknown as RainerMariaRilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyricallyintense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highlylyrical prose. Severalcritics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical".

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His writingsinclude one novel, severalcollections of poetry, and severalvolumes of correspondence in which he invokeshauntingimages that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. Thesedeeplyexistentialthemes tend to position him as a transitionalfigurebetween the traditional and the modernist writers.

Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelledextensivelythroughoutEurope and North Africa, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his lateryearssettled in Switzerland—settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems.

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