The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten Elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).
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The poems, 859 lines long in total, were dedicated to the Princess upon their publication in 1923.
Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets," began writing the Elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855-1934) at Duino Castle, near Trieste on the Adriatic Sea.
The Duino Elegies (German: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten Elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)