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Letters to a Young Poet
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Letters to a Young Poet
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This edition deals with these letters.
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Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now in Penguin Classics.
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.
This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force.
Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay.
This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.
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Letters to a Young Poet is highly regarded as an inspirational guide for aspiring poets, offering heartfelt advice on creativity and navigating the challenges faced by poets in a sometimes unsympathetic world.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780141192321
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 April 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Afterword by Charlie Louth
- Edited by Charlie Louth
- Introduction by Lewis Hyde
- Notes by Charlie Louth
- Translated by Charlie Louth
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 89g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague, and is often considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Charlie Louth was born in 1969 in Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the author of H lderlin and the Dynamics of Translation (1998). Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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