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Biography Rainer Maria Rilke
- Time Period1875 - 1926
- PlacePrague
- CountryCzech Republic
Poet Biography
Writer and poet, Rilke was considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany.Rainer maria rilke poems
He created the "object poem" as an attempt to describe with utmost clarity physical objects, the "silence of their concentrated reality." He became famous with such works as Duineser Elegien and Die Sonette an Orpheus . They both appeared in 1923.
After these books, Rilke had published his major works, believing that he had done his best as a writer. Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague as the son of Josef Rilke, a railway official and the former Sophie Entz. A crucial fact in Rilke's life was that his mother called him Sophia.
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She forced him to wear girl's clothes until he was aged five - thus compensating for the earlier loss of a baby daughter. Rilke's parents separated when he was nine. His militarily inclined Father sent him at ten yesrs old to the militar