Letters to a Young Poet

Informationen zum Autor Rainer Maria Rilke  (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies , and Letters to a Young Poet , was one of the greatest poets of the German language. M.D.H. Norton (1894–1985) was cofounder of W. W. Norton & Company, now the oldest and largest publisher owned wholly by its employees. Klappentext 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, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.  Zusammenfassung Rilke's timeless letters about poetry! sensitive observation! and the complicated workings of the human heart.

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• Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke Rainer Maria
• Assisted by: M D Herter Norton (Translation), M. D. Herter Norton (Translation), Norton M. D. Herter (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2004
• EAN: 9780393310399
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31039-9
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; Fiction > Narrative literature; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, german, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Diaries, letters and journals, C 1900 - C 1914, Literary studies: poetry and poets, c 1900 to c 1909