Panther
Author: first_name: Rainer Maria
last_name: Rilke
Language: English
Year: 1918

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets".  He wrote both verse and highly-lyrical prose.  Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical".  His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of comm