Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest
German-language writers to have ever lived. He is best known for
his Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Notebooks of Malte
Laurids Brigge.
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was an English novelist, poet and
garden designer. Born to an aristocratic family in the Kent
countryside, she became a prolific and successful author,
publishing many novels and a dozen volumes of poetry.
Edward Sackville-West (1901-65) was an English novelist and music
critic who, in his later years, became a member of the House of
Lords. He wrote several well-received novels and biographies and
won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his book on Thomas de
Quincey.
'The deepest mysteries of existence embodied in the most delicate and precise images. For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century' - Philip Pullman
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