Letters to a Young Poet
$18.48
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2012
Summary
Letters to a Young Poet: A Timeless Guide to Creativity and Life
Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now in Penguin Classics.
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 writers and artists of all kinds.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192321 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141192321 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth, Lewis Hyde |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 6mm |
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Critics Review
“The common reader will be delighted by Stephen Mitchell’s new translation of that slim and beloved volume by Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet … the best yet.” – Los Angeles Times
…I cannot think of a better book to put into the hands of any young would-be poet, as an inspirational guide to poetry and to surviving as a poet in a hostile world. – Harry Fainlight * The Times *
About The Author
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague, and is often considered one of the German language’s greatest 20th century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Charlie Louth was born in 1969 in Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the author of Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation (1998).
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. 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.
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