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Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke
Barcode 9780241620038
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Release Date: 23/02/2023

Genre: Poetry & Drama
Sub-Genre: Poetry & Drama
Translator: Charlie Louth
Label: Penguin Classics
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Contributors: Charlie Louth (Edited by), Charlie Louth (Translated by), Charlie Louth (Afterword by), Lewis Hyde (Introduction by), Charlie Louth (Notes by)
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

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Over the course of six years, Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, 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 volume also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written too in letter form.