Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 12 September 1929), known by his pseudonymRainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays ''Uguns un nakts'' (''Fire and Night'', 1905) and ''Indulis un Ārija'' (''Indulis and Ārija'', 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's ''Faust''. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnicsymbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
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