Duino Elegies
Americannoun
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I now also have a grand plan to read War and Peace, spend more time with Rilke’s Duino Elegies, and maybe drop in on some drawing classes.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2020
He spent the earlier part of this year as a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, working on a new version of Rilke's Duino Elegies.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2012
He was in the process of completing the Duino Elegies, the masterwork he had been engaged in since 1912.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
In an astonishing single month, Rilke completed the ten Duino Elegies and wrote the 55 Sonnets to Orpheus.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time he arrived at his masterpiece, the Duino Elegies, Rilke was trying to record the inner vision, an "event for which there's no image."
From Time Magazine Archive
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