Letters to a Young Poet

Informationen zum Autor Mark Harman is Professor Emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College. His award-winning translations include Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person and The Castle , as well as Herman Hesse’s Soul of the Age: Selected Letters and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet . Klappentext These ten letters by Rainer Maria Rilke speak directly to the young, offering unguarded thoughts on such diverse subjects as creativity, solitude, self-reliance, living with uncertainty, the shallowness of irony, the uselessness of criticism, career choices, sex, love, God, and art (which is only another way of living, Rilke writes). Zusammenfassung These ten letters by Rainer Maria Rilke speak directly to the young! offering unguarded thoughts on such diverse subjects as creativity! solitude! self-reliance! living with uncertainty! the shallowness of irony! the uselessness of criticism! career choices! sex! love! God! and art (which is only another way of living! Rilke writes).

Product details

• Authors: Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainermaria Rilke
• Assisted by: Mark Harman (Translation), Harman Mark (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780674052451
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05245-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 170 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Diaries, letters and journals