Word: weltinnenraum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage to Clara Westhof. In an age that is congesting toward total togetherness, when even a Wordsworth can only wander lonely as a crowd, the solitary figure of Rilke commands something somewhere between awe and irritation. He sought Weltinnenraum-literally, "inner-world-space," the landscape of the mind that can be seen only by introspection...
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