Andrew: "Keats and Rilke ... still take the top of my head off." Emily Dickinson's definition of poetry!
And I agree, Hoelderlin was a big influence on Rilke, as say Goethe, Brentano, Eichendorff, and Heine were not. But I'm just quoting my Cambridge German professor...
Rilke is great, isn't he? The Emperor Charles V said "... I speak German to my horse." Well, the horse could have heard some great poetry.
Cheers,
John
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