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  <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. 

He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Auguste Rodin, Boris Pasternak, André Gide,  Lou Andreas-Salomé]]></influences>    <hometown>Prague</hometown>  <born_at>12/04/1875</born_at>  <died_at>12/29/1926</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.34</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>3271</ratings_count>
  <published>1924</published>  
  
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        <book id="46201">
  <title><![CDATA[The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4840]]></link>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Robert Hass]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.47</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1293</ratings_count>
  <published>1910</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Duino Elegies]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.49</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>510</ratings_count>
  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.06</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>401</ratings_count>
  <published>1910</published>  
  
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        <book id="49473">
  <title><![CDATA[Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Being]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.38</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>365</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="467164">
  <title><![CDATA[Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>297</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="53109">
  <title><![CDATA[Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.58</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>224</ratings_count>
  <published>1923</published>  
  
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        <book id="49456">
  <title><![CDATA[Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>229</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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        <book id="251838">
  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Images]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.34</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>196</ratings_count>
  <published>1991</published>  
  
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        <book id="49458">
  <title><![CDATA[Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry &amp; Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1499202]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.68</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>164</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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