| Letters to a Young Poet Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Mitchell, Stephen (Translator), Mitchell, Stephen (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0394741048 ISBN-13: 9780394741048 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 1986 Annotation: Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - General - Literary Collections | Letters - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 86040669 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 4.18" W x 6.92" (0.15 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers for what Stephen Mitchell calls the vibrant and deeply felt experience of life that informs them. |