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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
The Duino Elegies consists of a series of 10 poems written by the Austrian-German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Published in 1923, this cycle is widely considered one of the most significant poetic achievements of the 20th century.1