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WW Norton & Co Letters To A Young Poet 2020 by Rainer Maria Rilke Franz Xaver Kappus Damion Searls
For more than ninety years eager writers and young poets even those simply looking for a purpose in life have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilkes Letters to a Young Poet first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the letters from young poet were forever lost to posterity. Yet shockingly the letters were recently discovered by Erich Unglaub a Rilke scholar and published in German in 2019. The acclaimed translator Damion Searls has now not only retranslated Rilkes original letters but also translated the letters by Franz Xaver Kappus an Austrian military cadet and aspiring poet. This timeless edition in addition to joining the two sets of letters together for the first time in English provides a new window into the workings of Rilkes visionary poetic and philosophical mind allowing us to re-experience the literary genius of one of the most inspiring works of twentieth-century literature.