The Romanoffs, Hitler, Mussolini and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke all reputedly stayed here.

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The quintet plays three Scott originals, including "Memory's Wavering Echo, " words borrowed directly from Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet.

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Not surprisingly, Mr Forbes's anthology finds little room for the quieter, subtler poets of the century: Rainer Maria Rilke, for example, has no entries.

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