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Letters to a Young Poet is a collection of ten letters written by renowned Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus. Kappus was a 19 year old cadet at the Theresian Military Academy and an aspiring poet seeking advice from Rilke on his own poetry. Letters to a Young Poet is highly recommended for those who are fans of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke.
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"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
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Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.
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