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Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. These translations by M. D. Herter Norton were the first to open Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in accurate, sensitive, modern versions free from both embroidery and slavish adherence to rhyme. The poems appear in German and English on facing pages.Rilke, Rainer Maria is the author of 'Letters to a Young Poet' with ISBN 9780931432941 and ISBN 0931432944.
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