The author of this article tried to demonstrate that Rilke had an important influence on six American Post-Modernist poets: Roethke, Schwartz, Jarrell, Berryman, Sexton and Plath who were particularly drawn to Rilke. Influences relate to American pets‘use of Rilkean technique of writing, choice of subject matter (thematic similarities) and gesture. The aim of the article was to raise questions and offer possibilities for further research.
