Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition

Rainer Maria Rilke with Edward Snow (Translator)

96 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, ...

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Moods

reflective 81%
challenging 59%
emotional 50%
inspiring 36%
dark 27%
sad 22%
relaxing 13%
adventurous 4%
hopeful 4%
lighthearted 4%
mysterious 4%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 37%
fast 12%

Average rating

4.27

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