| Letters to a Young Poet Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Norton, M. D. Herter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0393310396 ISBN-13: 9780393310399 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1993 Annotation: Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters--among the most famous and beloved of this century--reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. Two-color interior. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - German - Literary Collections | Letters - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 54011483 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.24" W x 7.88" (0.26 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Norton, M. D. Herter: - M. D. Herter Norton is a publisher and translator. Together with her husband William Warder Norton, she founded the publishing company W. W. Norton & Company. Her work as translator includes the translation of works by Rainer Maria Rilke.Rilke, Rainer Maria: - RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and The Book of Hours. |