Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke with Jessie Lemont (Translator)

62 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective fast-paced
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The cycle of 55 sonnets that comprise Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" were written in a period of three weeks during 1922, a time which the poet himself described as a "savage creative storm." Inspired by the death of his daughter's frie...

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