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Bohemian-Austrian poet René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (1875–1926)—widely known as Rainer Maria Rilke (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; Book of Hours)—is positioned next to German poets Goethe and Friedrich Hölderlin and is a rarefied talent in 20th-century poetry. Offering unconventional rhyme schemes and frequent enjambments, Rilke's poems are expressions of deeply felt experience, intense and lyrical: they're more intellectual than emotional—"How I have felt wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More