One of these works was inspired by a family of saltimbanques painted by Picasso, and they were inspired by a namesake Italian bastion and castle owned by Marie von Thurn where their author had visions of "terrifying angels.
In an unpublished one of these works, the author details a time when "once poets resounded over the battlefield," leading him to ponder "what voice can outshout the rattle of this metallic age?" Another one describes a hero that is "strangely close to those who died young" and whose "being is his ascent." According to the first one of these works, "pollen of flowering godhead, junctions of light, shields of bliss" and "tempests of storm-filled delighted feelings" are enumerated as "Creation's favorite ones." That one captures the terror of the ethereal Raphael by asking "Where are the Days of Tobias?" and also praises a sixteenth century Italian sonneteer who was spurned by Count Collalto, Gaspara Stampa. One of these works was inspired by a family of saltimbanques painted by Picasso, and they were inspired by a namesake Italian bastion and castle owned by Marie von Thurn where their author had visions of "terrifying angels." For 10 points, identify this group of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
In an unpublished one of these works, the author details a time when "once poets resounded over the battlefield," leading him to ponder "what voice can outshout the rattle of this metallic age?"
The Duino Elegies