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Rainer Maria Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet.    At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and ly... Read More about Letters to a Young Poet

Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice... Read More about Letters to a Young Poet (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. Grace may mean not only the felicity and ease - what Schiller refers to as the 'mobile beauty' - inhabiting certain works of art, but also the sense of something given, or about to be given, by a work ... Read More about Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson (Legenda)

The three centuries since 1700 have seen a fertile dialogue between literature in German and the momentous historical, philosophical, and cultural shifts of the period. The processes of modernization have left a deep mark on literature, and literature in turn has itself been an agent of change. The ... Read More about From the Enlightenment to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature

Crossings is a gathering of essays whose preoccupations converge in the idea that the workings of poetry and trans-lation are closely related. This is especially true in the work of H lderlin, in whose poems the kinship is coupled with a way of reading the world and an attentiveness to transitions o... Read More about Crossings: Essays on Poetry and Translation from Hölderlin to Jaccottet (Transcript #31)

The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke's words over the course of his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read? What does reading involve? These are questions of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses them i... Read More about Rilke: The Life of the Work