Letters to a Young Poet

Informationen zum Autor Mark Harman! who has written extensively on German and Irish literature! is Professor of English and German at Elizabethtown College. 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)
• 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