Duino Elegies. The German Text with an English Translation, Introduction & Commentary by J.B. Leishman, Stephen Spender, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies. The German Text with an English Translation, Introduction & Commentary

J.B. Leishman, Stephen Spender, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke

130 pages • first pub 1922 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to wh...

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