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Rainer Maria Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring 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... Read Full Overview

This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath... Read Full Overview

A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.

For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the... Read Full Overview

The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking... Read Full Overview

In der Reihe Klassiker in neuer Rechtschreibung gibt Klara Neuhaus-Richter die wichtigsten B cher der Weltliteratur in der empfohlenen Schreibweise nach Duden heraus. Rainer Maria Rilke: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter In den Jahren 1903 bis 1908 schreibt Rainer Maria Rilke insgesamt... Read Full Overview

These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the 20th century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers. Letters to a... Read Full Overview

These ten letters written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power style and conviction... Read Full Overview

An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition with All Ten Letters, to include three poems from The Book of Pictures: Kings In Legends, The Knight & The Woman Who Loves -

In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer,... Read Full Overview