Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainier Maria Rilke (1875-1926) achieved fame with his Duino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet.

From the Review

December 21, 2006: Komm Du, Du Letzter...* (poem)

October 21, 1982: Two Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (poem)

From New York Review Books

Letters: Summer 1926
Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.