His first great work, Das Stunden Buch ( The Book of Hours), appeared in 1905, followed in 1907 by Neue Gedichte ( New Poems) and Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge ( The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge). It was during his twelve-year Paris residence that Rilke enjoyed his greatest poetic activity. In 1902, he became the friend and, for a time, the secretary of Rodin. At Worpswede, where Rilke lived for a time, he met and married Clara Westhoff, who had been a pupil of Auguste Rodin. While there, the young poet met Leo Tolstoy, whose influence is seen in Das Buch vom lieben Gott und anderes ( Stories of God), and Leonid Pasternak, the nine-year-old Boris’s father. In 1897, Rilke went to Russia, a trip that would prove to be a milestone in Rilke’s life, and which marked the beginning of his early, serious works. That same year, Rilke decided to leave the university for Munich, and later made his first trip to Italy. A third collection, Traumgekrönt ( Dream-Crowned) followed in 1896. Between 18, Rilke published his second collection, Larenopfer ( Sacrifice to the Lares). By the time he enrolled at Charles University in Prague in 1895, he knew that he would pursue a literary career: he had already published his first volume of poetry, Leben und Lieder, the previous year.
With the help of his uncle, who realized that Rilke was a highly gifted child, Rilke left the military academy and entered a German preparatory school. His parents placed him in military school with the desire that he become an officer-a position Rilke was not inclined to hold. Rainer Maria Rilke was born on December 4, 1875, in Prague.
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