Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke with Jessie Lemont (Translator)

112 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective fast-paced
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During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus. Inspired by the death of a friend's daughter, the poet felt that he was being compelled to write by the girl's ghost. At about the ...

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