The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He began the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea; the poems were dedicated to the Princess upon their publication in 1923. During this ten-year period, the elegies languished incomplete for long stretches of time as Rilke had frequent bouts with severe depression, some of which were related to the events of World War I and being conscripted into military service. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Composed, From (Year) Composed, To (Year)Begun 1912 at Duino Castle; completed February 1922; published 1923 by Insel-Verlag. Classification
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The Duino Elegies...are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke...began the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea. The poems were dedicated to the Princess upon their publication in 1923.
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He was then "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", and began the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea.
Authored By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Lead section, authorship
The Duino Elegies...are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
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