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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Introduction
Early life and education
Relationship with Lou Andreas-Salomé and travels in Russia
The Book of Hours
, Worpswede, and marriage
Paris and friendship with Auguste Rodin
Development of new lyric poetry and
New Poems
The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge
Writing block and military service
Duino Elegies
and
Sonnets to Orpheus
Final years and death
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Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Lou Andreas-Salomé, c. 1905
The Russian-German writer and psychotherapist Lou Andreas-Salomé became Rainer Maria...
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Rainer Maria Rilke (left) with Lou Andreas-Salomé (center) and Spiridon Drozhzhin, c. 1900
In 1899 and again in 1900, Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Russia with the Russian-German...
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Auguste Rodin
The French sculptor Auguste Rodin became a close friend of Rainer Maria Rilke after...
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