Letters to a young poet

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Title:

Author:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926, author.

ISBN:

9780393310399

Personal Author:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926, author.

Uniform Title:

Briefe an einen jungen Dichter. English

Edition:

Revised edition

Physical Description:

123 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Norton paperback

General Note:

Previous edition: 1934.

Translation of: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter.

Contents:

Translator's note -- Introduction -- The letters -- Chronicle, 1903-1908.

Abstract:

Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (pages 81-123).

Personal Subject:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926-Correspondence.

Kappus, Franz Xaver, 1883-1966-Correspondence.

Subject Term:

Authors, German -- Correspondence -- 20th century.

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Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.

Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.

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