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Letters to a Young Poet
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and artists of all kinds, including Lady Gaga and Patti Smith. With honesty, elegance, and a deep understanding of the loneliness that often comes with being an artist, Rilke's letters are an endless source of inspiration and comfort. Lewis Hyde's new introduction explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. This edition also includes Rilke's later work The Letter from the Young Worker.
For more than 80 years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: Mar 25th, 2014
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.10in - 0.30in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9780141192321
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • European - German• Letters• General
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About the Author
Charlie Louth is a fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the author of Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation.
Lewis Hyde is the author of the hundred-million-copy bestseller The Gift. A MacArthur fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Gambier, Ohio.
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What people are saying
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We’re switching things up to kick off the new year and reading one of our favorite ~classics: LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET by Rainer Maria Rilke. It’s so inspiring it may just set you on a journey to the best year yet. 🖤🤍
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Mindset | Self-improvement | Psychology | Relationships Quotes and sayings to keep you inspired.
“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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What people are saying
Dakota Johnson is an actor.
We’re switching things up to kick off the new year and reading one of our favorite ~classics: LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET by Rainer Maria Rilke. It’s so inspiring it may just set you on a journey to the best year yet. 🖤🤍
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression, they exist where a word has never intruded.,Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet,books, expression, literature, reading, words