Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young PoetDrawn 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. Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote these letters.

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with a substantial foreword by Timothy Snyder that speaks to its enduring relevance

He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates

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deleted segments lift the mask of “sainthood” frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality

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explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia

A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work

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