![]() ![]() He had begun his Duino Elegies in 1912, and completed parts of it in 19 before being rendered silent by a psychological crisis caused by the events of World War I and his brief conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army. ![]() Through most of the 1910s, Rilke had suffered from a severe depression that had kept him from writing. Writing and publication history Château de Muzot and the "savage creative storm" The Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies are considered Rilke's masterpieces and the highest expressions of his talent. ![]() : 481Īt the same time in February 1922, Rilke had completed work on his deeply philosophical and mystical ten-poem collection entitled Duino Elegies which had taken ten years to complete. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets," wrote the cycle in a period of three weeks experiencing what he described a "savage creative storm." Inspired by the news of the death of Wera Ouckama Knoop (1900–1919), a playmate of Rilke's daughter Ruth, he dedicated them as a memorial, or Grab-Mal (literally "grave-marker"), to her memory. It was first published the following year. The Sonnets to Orpheus ( German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian- Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Die Sonette an Orpheus at German Wikisource ![]()
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