![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Sophie ("Phia") Entz (1851–1931), came from a well-to-do Prague family, the Entz-Kinzelbergers, who lived in a house on the Herrengasse (Panská) 8, where René also spent many of his early years. ![]() His father, Josef Rilke (1838–1906), became a railway official after an unsuccessful military career. His childhood and youth in Prague were not especially happy. He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia (then part of Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic). He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. ![]() His haunting images 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. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) was a Bohemian–Austrian poet and art critic. ![]()
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