(PDF DOWNLOAD) Letters to a Young Poet

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Genres: Diaries, Letters & Journals
Authors:
Pages: 123 pages
ISBN10: 0241252059
ISBN13: 9780241252055
Tags: Diaries, Letters & Journals, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: Book
Size: Huge
Type: Digital

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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