![]() ![]() While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. ![]() Rilke travelled extensively throughout Europe (including Russia, Spain, Germany, France and Italy), and in his later years settled in Switzerland - settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and profound anxiety. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". ![]() He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets". René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: ), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. ![]()
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