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 Rainer Maria Rilke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1898 Rilke undertook a journey lasting several weeks to (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD) Italy.
At the same time his encounter with modernism was very stimulating: Rilke got deeply involved in the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and then with the work of the painter (French postimpressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906)) Paul Cezanne (1839-1906).
Rilke has also been feted in (United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937)) Thomas Pynchon's (additional info and facts about Gravity's Rainbow) Gravity's Rainbow and (additional info and facts about William Gaddis) William Gaddis' voluminous novel The Recognitions.
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 Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In tone Rilke’s verse was often mystical and prophetic; he used symbolism as a means of expression and created poetry that bears a strong resemblance to medieval verse.
This resemblance may reflect Rilke’s religious outlook—his probing into the emotional and spiritual issues involved in the search for goodness and transcendence in the absence of a personal God and his absorption with death as a poetic theme.
Rilke was antimodern in many ways, an attitude particularly evident in his antipathy for large modern cities.
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 Encyclopedia: Rainer Maria Rilke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rainer Maria Rilke in a portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker
He was born as René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, Austria-Hungary, on 4 December 1875.
The poet died on 29 December 1926 in the Valmont Sanatorium in Switzerland, and was laid to rest on 2 January 1927 in the Raron cemetery to the west of Visp.
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 Rilke, Rainer Maria on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rilke in America: the strange migration of an elusive poet.
Rilke's Duino angels and the angels of Islam.(Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies)(Critical Essay)
The poet of the Reich.(German poets Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Stefan George)(Critical Essay)
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 AllRefer.com - Rainer Maria Rilke (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Rainer Maria Rilke (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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