Rainer
Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875. After attending a military
academy he studied art history in Munich and Berlin. His first book
of poetry, Stories of God, was
published in 1900. This was followed by Poems
from the Book of Hours (1905).
Other books
by Rilke include New Poems (1907),
Journal of My Other Self (1910),
Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) and
Duino Elegies (1923). Rainer
Maria Rilke died in 1926.
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