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Rilke, Rainer Maria; Norton, M. D. (translator)
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Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated (edition ), 1962
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- Title
- Letters to a Young Poet
- Author
- Rilke, Rainer Maria; Norton, M. D. (translator)
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated (edition )
- Publication year
- 1962
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039300158X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393001587
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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"...I cannot think of a better book to put into the hands of any young would-be poet, as an inspirational guide to poetry and to surviving as a poet in a hostile world." Harry Fainlight, The Times
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