Duino Elegies by David Young, Rainer Maria Rilke

101 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino Elegies. These luminous new translations by Martyn Crucefix, facing the original German texts, make it...

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Moods

reflective 80%
emotional 60%
challenging 54%
inspiring 30%
dark 23%
mysterious 21%
hopeful 17%
sad 17%
relaxing 10%
informative 4%
lighthearted 4%
adventurous 2%
tense 2%

Pace

medium 45%
slow 42%
fast 12%

Average rating

4.28

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