Letters to a Young Poet - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599863901 ISBN 13: 9781599863900

Publisher: FQ Publishing, 2016

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.

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.