Author

Books by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was an Austro-Bohemian poet and prose writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century. His major works include the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, both completed in 1922 after years of interruption. He spent much of his adult life in voluntary solitude across Europe, moving between Paris, Switzerland, and various aristocratic estates. He worked briefly as secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin, an experience that shaped his thinking about artistic discipline. He died of leukemia in Switzerland in 1926.