Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus

✍ Scribed by Rainer Maria Rilke

• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the problems of death, God, and "destructive time," and attempts to overcome and transform these problems into an indestructive inner world.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
......Page 6
Preface
......Page 8
Contents
......Page 11
Duino Elegies
......Page 12
First Elegy
......Page 16
Second Elegy
......Page 24
Third Elegy
......Page 30
Fourth Elegy
......Page 38
Fift Elegy
......Page 44
Six Elegy
......Page 54
Seventh Elegy
......Page 58
Eighth Elegy
......Page 66
Ninth Elegy
......Page 72
Tenth Elegy
......Page 80
The Sonnets of Orpheus
......Page 89
First Series
......Page 92
Second Series
......Page 145
Notes
......Page 205