Rilke
[ril-kuh]
- Rai·ner Ma·ri·a [rahy-nuh r mah-ree-ah] /ˈraɪ nər mɑˈri ɑ/, 1875–1926, Austrian poet, born in Prague.
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Contemporary Examples
The same advice that Rodin gave to Rilke: il faut travailler—toujours travailler.
The lines suffer from translation; Rilke is notoriously difficult to render into English.
Poets, from Virgil and Ovid to Mallarme and Rilke, have written his story.
Rilke accused her of forming him like a clay pot before dropping and breaking him.
Historical Examples
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work.
Auguste RodinRainer Maria Rilke
This first phase in Rilke's work may be defined as the phase of reposeful nature.
PoemsRainer Maria Rilke
The ascent toward the acme of Rilke's art after the year 1900 is as rapid as it is precipitous.
PoemsRainer Maria Rilke
The realization of this truth expressed in the medium of poetry is the significance of Rilke's Book of Hours.
PoemsRainer Maria Rilke
In this phase of Rilke's development, the principle of renunciation constitutes a certain negative element in his philosophy.
PoemsRainer Maria Rilke
Rilke
- Rainer Maria (ˈrainər maˈriːa). 1875–1926, Austro-German poet, born in Prague. Author of intense visionary lyrics, notably in the Duino Elegies (1922) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)
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