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Rilke

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Rilke
Rainer Maria . 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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In each he sees a masterful poet crying out for a lost religious community; Rilke invents for himself a community not of this world; Eliot imagines the recovery of the holy within a Christian community long dead.
Sarah violently exhibits this tendency when, in anger and frustration, she throws Ross's Rilke book at him (28).
From Hopper's words, attributed to Heidegger as he commented on Holderlin and Rilke.
 
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