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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1875 December 4 - 1926 December 29

Gender

  • Males

Occupations

Places

Languages Used

  • German

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Ludwig Lewisohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0028
Collection Overview Papers document mostly Lewisohn's friendship and early homosexual love affair with poet George Sylvester Viereck and Lewisohn's later marriage to Edna Manley. Correspondence (1903-1955) between Lewisohn and Viereck is mostly on literary matters; but early holograph poems by Lewisohn refer to their love affair. Other poems include printed and typescript copies and his English translations of some poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.Most of the collection documents the relationship of...
Dates: 1903-1980s; Majority of material found within 1940s