![]() ![]() “The perfect gift for any aspiring poet or, indeed, for anyone interested in good writing, is Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, newly translated by Mark Harman. ” -John Banville, The New York Review of Books Franz Kappus was a fortunate young man to have found such a correspondent, and we are fortunate in his good fortune. ![]() His tone may be elevated and his manner at times that of a dandy-he was elevated, he was a dandy-but the advice purveyed in these letters, and the observations and aperçus that they throw off, contain true wisdom, and are anything but platitudinous. Mark Harman’s burnished, elegant new translation is the fifth English version, and likely to become the standard one… Above all, these letters give the lie to the idea of Rilke as hopelessly self-regarding and cut off from authentic, ‘ordinary’ life. “ Letters to a Young Poet is one of Rilke’s most popular books…well known to poets in their youth and an ideal handbook for beginning writers. ![]()
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