In a message dated 98-01-07 01:25:16 EST, you write: << on the phone where the book of poetry is--and it is exclusively in German--poems written by "the only great poet of the century." Rilke? Died in 1926...so maybe.... >> Goethe? I don't know, maybe he was in the 19th century. Anyone agree on Rilke? Any other guesses? Eric