The Sonnets of Rainer Maria RilkeRomano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come. The complexity of Rilke is, then, highly relevant to modern Man. Decades after Guardinis assessment, the reader who rediscovers Rilke will find a depth of mind and soul that display a profundity the post modern reader only thinks he possesses. In an expanded collection of Rilkes