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Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work. Letters to a young poet penguin little black classics series by rainer maria. Rainer maria rilke was born in 1875 in prague, which was then part of the austrianhungarian empire. His two most famous verse sequences are the sonnets to orpheus and the duino elegies. A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all.
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