Letters to a Young Poet
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- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 33
About this book
Letters to a Young Poet is a collection of ten letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus, a young officer cadet at the military academy in Wiener Neustadt who had sent him some poems. The letters were written between 1902 and 1908 and were published in 1929.
In them Rilke declines to judge the poems and instead talks about solitude, patience, love, doubt and the need to write only if one cannot do otherwise. They also give a good view of the ideas behind his own poetry and of how he worked.
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Book facts
- Author
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- First published
- 1929
- Reading time
- About 1 hour
- Pages
- 33
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online