Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are theSonnets to Orpheusand theDuino Elegies; his two most famous prose works areLetters to a Young Poetand the semiautobiographicalThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.