Rilke's existentialist cry in the shadow of Duino castle was heard by no one but himself. He thought he was alone in the universe, delivering a lamentation for the lost.

But it doesn’t strike me as the most plausible one. For several reasons, I see this poem in the background of the Duineser Elegien. Rilke wrote that walking the land around the castle at Duino, he ...

This article's point of departure is Rilke's specification that the angels of his Duino Elegies are not to be equated with Christian ones, being more comparable to Islamic angels. Existing efforts to ...

Rilke’s verse is hard to translate, but some of the middle-period verse comes across in parts. The prose is a better bet, especially the deliberately approachable Letters to a Young Poet.

The 14th century Duino Castle, where Rilke had stayed, is perched on steep cliffs that plunge down to crashing waves.

The poems are composed of ten elegies Rilke started writing in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855–1934) at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. Rilke (1875–1926) ...

Thus one of Rilke’s most characteristic devices is the expression of human life in terms of landscape: O Mädchen, dies: das wir liebten in uns, nicht Eines, ein Künftiges, sondern ...

Rilke's Fourth Duino Elegy (1915) offers a poetic solution to the philosophical problem of self-consciousness posed by Kleist's 1810 essay “On the Marionette Theater” (“Über das Marionettentheater”).