letters to a young poet
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The History of Literature #237 – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (with Amanda Stern)
In the autumn of 1902, a young man attending a German military school wrote to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to ask him for some advice. Rilke responded, and the two struck up a correspondence that has become one of the great moments in the history of literature. For more than a century, Rilke’s advice, Continue reading
