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Book Description
A beloved classic of writerly wisdom.
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 iContinue
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independent published on Fri, 8 Apr 2011
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I was reading this on my trip to Europe in 98, right after the SF quake. In Paris I stumbled in a show of Rilke's paraphernalia and it all seemed so momentous, all his suggestions to the poet just right for me too, for anyone who wants to pause and gather his thoughts and figure out who he is and wh ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Hardcover 107 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0931432944
- ISBN-13: 9780931432941
- Publisher: New World Library
- Pub date: Apr 01, 1992
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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| 9780931432941 | Hardcover | $15.00 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Letters To A Young Poet, By Rainer Maria Rilke
A letter written to Rilke by a young man entering a military career who secretly wished to become a poet himself forms the basis of this slim, jewel of a volume of ten letters, written in response by the Bohemian-Austrian poet over six years in the e ... (read full critics)