Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien by Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies/Duineser Elegien

Rainer Maria Rilke

96 pages first pub 1922 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry reflective medium-paced

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Rainer Maria Rilke, one of Germany's greatest poets, began this work in 1912, at the castle of Duino near Trieste. It took him a decade to complete these meditations on love, death, God, and life's meaning, and he regarded them as his greatest ach...

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mysterious 16%
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