Sign in
Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Dows Herter Norton, Franz Xaver Kappus
4.3
based on 987 ratings

About this book

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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780393310399
ISBN10 0393310396
Series/Work OL16027499W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Norton
Pages 123
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

20th century Austrian Authors Authors Autores alemanes Biography Correspondance Correspondence Correspondence (Rilke, Rainer Maria) Correspondencia Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Création littéraire Criticism and interpretation Ecrivains allemands Écrivains allemands Écrivains autrichiens German Authors Kappus, franz xaver, 1883-1966 Love Poets, correspondence Rilke, rainer maria, 1875-1926

Community Reviews

Write a review

No reviews yet. Be the first to review this book!