The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke is a prose poem written by Rainer Maria Rilke in 1899, revised in 1906, and published in 1912. Rilke wrote the poem after finding a document in his uncle Jaroslav's papers concerning Christopher Rilke, a man who Rainer's family erroneously believed to be an ancestor and who "died as a cornet in the baron of Pirovano's company of the Imperial Austrian Heyster Regiment of Horse." The poem recounts the adventures of Christopher Rilke, who travels with a company of soldiers and then, after a night in a castle with a lover, fights and dies in a war in Turkey and is mourned by an old woman.
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The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke is a prose poem written by Rainer Maria Rilke in 1899, revised in 1906, and published in 1912. Rilke wrote the poem after finding a document in his uncle Jaroslav's papers concerning Christopher Rilke, a man who Rainer's family erroneously believed to be an ancestor and who "died as a cornet in the baron of Pirovano's company of the Imperial Austrian Heyster Regiment of Horse." The poem recounts the adventures of Christopher Rilke, who travels with a company of soldiers and then, after a night in a castle with a lover, fights and dies in a war in Turkey and is mourned by an old woman.
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Die Weise von Liebe und Tod de ...... nanz hält bis heute (2012) an.
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The Love and Death of Cornet C ...... version of the poem in Berlin.
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M. D. Herter Norton
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Insel Verlag
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Die Weise von Liebe und Tod de ...... die Publikumsresonanz hält bis
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The Love and Death of Cornet C ...... nd is mourned by an old woman.
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Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke
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The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
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Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke
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The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
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