Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. 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. He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Rainer Maria Rilke. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke
...Home] [Poetry] [Texts] The Rilke Files Guestbook Der Einsame - The lonely Einsamkeit - Loneliness Abend - Evening Zum einschlafen zu sagen - To be said while falling asleep ... www.srcf.ucam.org/%7Epjk42/rilke_files/rilke.html
Pasternak was a schoolboy of ten when he met Rilke, who in 1900 was paying his second and last visit to Russia, accompanied and looked after by his mothermistress, Lou Andreas-Salom. www.nybooks.com/articles/5268
