Letters to a Young Poet: Little Black Classics (Penguin Little Black Classics) - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241252059 ISBN 13: 9780241252055

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2016

'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

From the Back Cover:

"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

From the Inside Flap:

Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.