During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 Sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus .
Intimately connected to the Sonnets in themes and sensibilities, the Elegies offer meditations on love, death, God, and life\'s meaning that e.
At about the same time he also completed Duino Elegies, which he had begun ten years earlier.
Inspired by the death of a friend\'s daughter, the poet felt that he was being compelled to write by the girl\'s ghost.
During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 Sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus