Uncollected Poems: Rainer Maria Rilke.

The Nation | April 1, 1996| | Copyright

Open-eyed, Rainer Maria Rilke died in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926. The leukemia that killed him had been almost reluctantly diagnosed, and had struck like a storm, after a period of gathering clouds. Ulcerous sores appeared in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines, he slept a lot when his body let him, his spirit was weighed down with depression, while physically he became thin and fluttery as a leaf. Since, according to the gloom that naturally descended on him, Rilke's creative life was over, he undertook translations during his last months: of ...

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