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The Laments

the Laments

also: die Klagen, a Lament

In the Tenth Elegy a once-great, now vanished race of personified Laments who people the Land of Pain; a young Lament leads the newly dead youth through their country and names its constellations of grief.

Reading notes

Mentioned in 3 works (3 mentions)

New Poems poem · 1 mention
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Prose · 1 mention
Duino Elegies poem · 1 mention

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