NOUN
- German poet (born in Austria) whose imagery and mystic lyricism influenced 20th-century German literature (1875-1926)
How To Use Rilke In A Sentence
- Mirjam Tuominen's last secular 'signposts' were Rilke and Hölderlin. Mirjam Tuominen - 10
- The poem as philosophical-historical sundial clearly applies to great European lyric poets such as Rilke and Celan.
- On the ideological and artistic transition of Fengzhi the poet R. M. Rilke, a German-speaking poet, exerted a decisive influence.
- His poetry gives evidence of a bookish and extremely thoughtful life while encountering the forms and rituals of cultures without literatures — West African, Mexican and Central American — as well as the writers — Augustine, Goethe, Rilke, David Hume, Hugh MacDiarmid — whose traces we find allusively placed throughout his work. A mess of errors : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- It is worth noting that a large number of Tuominen's prototypes were men: mostly unusual, 'unmasculine' men like Kafka, Proust, Rilke or Hölderlin. Mirjam Tuominen - 6
- For Rilke, the father's all-encompassing love is what drove the prodigal son away in the first place and what threatens to overwhelm and destroy him on his return.
- Celan is now recognized as the greatest German poet since Rilke.
- This poem is the metaphor of Rilke' s spiritual contradiction which is a metaphysical sense and does not involve the content of experience.
- He is working on a translation of the German lyric poet Rainer Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and on music projects with Scottish piano player Steve Hamilton, who lives in Sofia.
- He is a resolute 'classicist' in many ways, expressing his unease about Rilke to Maria von Wedemeyer when she shares her enthusiasm; Rilke is 'unhealthy', a diagnostician of the darker, more flawed and ambiguous regions of the spirit (yet he admired at least some of Dostoevsky). Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Archbishop's Speech to the International Bonhoeffer Congress, Poland