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Neue Gedichte
work by Rilke
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- In Rainer Maria Rilke: Maturity.
These Neue Gedichte (1907–08) represented a departure from traditional German lyric poetry. Rilke forced his language to such extremes of subtlety and refinement that it may be characterized as a distinct art among other arts and a language distinct from existing languages. The worldly elegance of…
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