Word: ghastlier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet. Rilke was born in Prague in 1875. Thanks to his mother he spent his first five years as a girl. Thanks to his father he spent five more years (aged 10 to 15) in the hell of a military school. He came out of it a hypersensitive androgyne, who wrote facile poetry and worse prose, traveled in Italy and Russia, gradually crystallized the beginnings of a serious art in which virginity, roses and death held almost obsessive symbolic values...
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