1. Käte Hamburger, "Die phänomenologische Struktur der Dichtung Rilkes," in Philosophie der Dichter: Novalis, Schiller, Rilke (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1966), pp. 179-275, at p. 179. break [BACK]

2. Käte Hamburger, Rilke: Eine Einführung (Stuttgart: Klett, 1976), p. 15. Paul de Man, "Tropes (Rilke)," in Allegories of Reading, pp. 20-56, at p. 36. [BACK]

3. Hamburger, Rilke, pp. 18, 16, 17. [BACK]

5. Being-toward-death is the subject of the first chapter of the second part of Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, pp. 235-67. George Steiner, among others, has made the comparison between Rilke and Heidegger on this point. See George Steiner, Martin Heidegger (New York: Viking, 1978), p. 104. [BACK]

6. Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, in Sämt. W, 5:139-280. The work has been translated into English as Rodin, trans. Robert Firmage (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1979). This edition includes black-and-white photoplates of many of Rodin's sculptures. [BACK]

7. Heidegger, "Wozu Dichter?", in Holzwege (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1950), pp. 248-95. [BACK]

8. James Atlas, "The Case of Paul de Man," The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 28, 1988, p. 69. [BACK]

9. De Man, Allegories of Reading, p. 38. [BACK]

10. De Man, Blindness and Insight, p. 31. break [BACK]