Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnets to Orpheus

Rainer Maria Rilke with M.D. Herter Norton (Translator)

160 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single...

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Moods

reflective 86%
emotional 46%
challenging 43%
inspiring 40%
hopeful 26%
relaxing 23%
mysterious 20%
sad 6%
dark 3%
lighthearted 3%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 26%
fast 23%

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