A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923).
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
vraćaću joj se definitivno, jer nisam previše zalazila u kontekst svake pjesme ali mi je jako prijao njegov uporni optimizam i žudnja za životom u pojedinim pjesmama, što mi je bilo jako potrebno u ovom periodu doduše, elegije ta osjećanja podižu na mnogo veći nivo jer ponavljana SVEOBUHVATNOST POSTOJANJA konačno dobija ljudske oblike
Izdanje CID-a zaslužuje sve pohvale, a pjesnička vrijednost samog Rilkeovog djela je odlična. Međutim, etički gledano, odnos prema religioznim pitanjima, po mom mišljenju je neprihvatljiv, naročito u Časlovcu.