Rainers Marija Rilke (1875. 4. XII –1926. 29. XII) ir viens no lielākajiem austriešu dzejniekiem un vārda meistariem. Brieduma gados viņš nonāca krievu kultūras ietekmē un 1899. gada pavasarī, 1900. gada vasarā ceļoja pa Krieviju, satiekoties, starp citu, arī ar Ļevu Tolstoju. Šīs simpātijas pret Krieviju un krievu cilvēku Rilke saglabā visu mūžu, tās rod savu izpausmi arī viņa daiļradē, tai skaitā arī viņa stāstā «Kā Krievijā sākās nodevība». Šajā darbā pieejama vairāku dzejoļu grāmatu izlase. Dzejoļi no Rilkes dzejoļu krājumiem: "Ziedojums lariem" (1895); "Ar sapņu kroni galvā" (1896); "Advente" (1897); "Agrie dzejoļi" (1909); "Stundu grāmata" (1905); "Tēlu grāmata" (1902); "Jauni dzejoļi" (1907); "Jauno dzejoļu otrā daļa" (1908); "Duinas elēģijas" (1923); "Soneti Orfejam" (1923).
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A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923). People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language. 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. His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
