Letters to a Young Poet (平装) 0393310396

A beloved classic of writerly wisdom.

Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote these letters.

.com Review It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love withRainer MariaRilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium,hisslender book holds everything a student of the century could want: theunedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of themodern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903,addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipientwaswise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, whichmeans that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aestheticsandexhortation.

The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city inwhich he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yethespends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work,deliveringa sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; atitssource you will find the answer to the question whether you mustcreate. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it.Perhaps itwill turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take thatdestinyupon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without everasking what recompense might come from outside.

Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the bookisfree of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. Hisideason gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient.Andeven his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which thepoetderives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") iscounterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related thanwethink." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--andforan astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to aYoungPoet.--Jennifer Buckendorff Review " 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 Hardcover edition." "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 Hardcover edition. -- Review--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. Review 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 Hardcover edition.--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Rainer Marie Rilke, the great Austro-German poet, was the author of many works including Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Stephen Mitchell's translations include Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Job, Tao Te Ching, and, most recently, Bhagavad-Gita.He lives in California. From the Paperback edition.--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

出版社	W. W. Norton & Company
作者	Rainer Maria Rilke