Letters to a Young Poet

Name: Letters to a Young Poet
Brand: Rainer Maria Rilke
SKU: 9781946963130
Price: 6.68 GBP
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by Rainer Maria Rilke

Title:

Author:

Rainer Maria Rilke

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

42 pages

Publisher:

Albatross Publishers

ISBN-13:

9781946963130

EAN:

9781946963130

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

184

Dimensions (mm):

154 x 233 x 8

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£6.68

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Description

Facsimile of 1943 Edition. 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, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.