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) ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. -Rainer Maria Rilke, from The First Elegy, of the Duino Elegies, 1912. January, 1912: the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, fraught with ...