Duino Elegies
rainer maria rilke
['hironobu sakaguchi', 'pierre beaumarchais', 'moses', 'james agee', 'sue monk kidd', 'scott westerfeld', 'mary wollstonecraft shelley', 'howard wandrei', 'sandy wilson', 'ernest gowers', 'mayu shinjo', 'thomas keneally', 'heinrich cornelius agrippa', 'jean genet', 'fred hoyle', 'charles schulz', 'marjorie kinnan rawlings', 'severino reyes', 'michael praetorius', 'christopher marlowe', 'paul krugman', 'naomi klein', 'jan potocki', 'armstrong sperry', 'jorge luis borges', 'leonard carpenter', 'joanot martorell', 'fuyumi ono', 'philip sydney', 'diana wynne jones', 'tom petty', 'evan hunter', 'alessandro manzoni', 'thomas kyd', 'reagan', 'jane austen', 'joseph stein', 'zarathustra', 'eric knight', 'jay anson', 'william rowley', 'trotsky', 'joe melson', 'gary gygax', 'larry niven', 'grimms', 'sigmund freud', 'franklin roosevelt', 'stephen jay gould', 'doug wright', 'caryl churchill', 'germaine greer', 'james rado', 'galileo galilei', 'ibm', 'haruki murakami', 'margaret wise brown', 'sara shepard', 'adolf hitler', 'saint augustine', 'roger leloup', 'rumiko takahashi', 'sharat chandra chattopadhyay', 'hideyuki kikuchi', 'agatha christie', 'fletcher pratt', 'lewis carroll', 'chris claremont', 'ignazio silone', 'fanny burney', 'hideo azuma', 'carl von clausewitz', 'brendan behan', 'kazumasa hirai', 'nagaru tanigawa', 'sir walter scott', 'jude watson', 'babur', 'bertolt brecht', 'dan simmons', 'washington irving', 'antonio gramsci', 'vaidyanatha dikshita', 'tooru fujisawa', 'reid hoffman', 'chris van allsburg', 'james blish', 'hans karl breslauer', 'margaret atwood', 'anne tyler', 'jonathan littell', 'giacomo casanova', 'larry mcmurtry', 'douglas coupland', 'cotton mather', 'amy sedaris', 'pierre culliford', 'joseph campbell', 'robert graves']
Sonnets to Orpheus
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). It was first published the following year. 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.:481 At 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. The Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies are considered Rilke's masterpieces and the highest expressions of his talent.