Word: duino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George B. Sohier Prize of $250 "for the best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature" was given to Charles M. McEwen, Jr. '54 for his thesis "Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Fifth Duino Elegy.'" Alexander Welsh '54 won honorable mention for his work entitled "The Experience of Mortality in the Poems of A. E. Housman...
...first World War. It tore through Rilke like a tank through a cobweb. Not until 1922 did Rilke give tongue again. In less than three weeks of tremendous effort at the Château de Muzot, near Sierre, Switzerland, he wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus and completed the Duino Elegies, a series of ten long poems starred ten years before at Duino Castle on the Adriatic...