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...DUINO ELEGIES AND THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS...
Pacing outside Duino Castle near Trieste in early 1912, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke heard a voice above the Adriatic surf: "And if I cried, who'd listen to me in those angelic orders?" Rilke took this enigmatic question as the signal to begin his chef-d'oeuvre: a series of poems that would unite the visible order of things with the invisible universe of thought-to see the world as the angels might. He finished two elegies and fragments of several others before inspiration deserted him. Ten years and a world war later, it suddenly reappeared...
...Switzerland he attained a sort of civic asylum. Patronesses supplied chalets and chateaux. He completed the Duino Elegies, begun at Princess Thurn and Taxis' castle on the Adriatic near Trieste; she celebrated the event with a ceremonious visit, during which the poet recited the whole work...
...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...