Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke

Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition

Rainer Maria Rilke with Edward Snow (Translator)

96 pages first pub 1923 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, ...

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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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