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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
The Duino Elegies, a series of 10 poems by the Austrian-German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, were published in German as Duineser Elegien in 1923.1
Although the cycle was completed in February 1922 following a period of intense productivity at the ChĆ¢teau de Muzot, the poems themselves were composed over the course of a decade, beginning in 1912.12