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

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.

3. Hamburger, Rilke, pp. 18, 16, 17.

4. Rainer Maria Rilke, Sämtliche Werke (henceforth Sämt. W ) (Frankfurt-am-Main: Insel, 1955), 1:690.

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.

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.

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

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

9. De Man, Allegories of Reading, p. 38.

10. De Man, Blindness and Insight, p. 31. break