Christine Lavant
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Christine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.

Life

She was the ninth child of a miner in the Lavant Valley, which she used for her pseudonym. Her poems have been described as "almost mystically religious" and "archaic." Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

and Christianity are seen as influences on her work.
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