Letters to a Young Poet
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Letters to a Young Poet is a collection of ten letters written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus, a 19-year-old officer cadet at the Theresian Military Academy in
The author of the letters: Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Hours
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The Book of Hours is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. The collection was written between 1899 and 1903 in three parts, and first published in Leipz
Letters to a Young Poet
…written during a key period of Rilke's early artistic development after his reputation as a poet began to be established with the publication of parts of Das Stunden-Buch (The Book of Hours) and Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Images). In 1929, Franz Xaver Kappus compiled ten letters that he had received from Rainer…
Lou Andreas-Salome and Rilke in Russia, 1900
Rilke's imagery of walls and devotional pictures finds its inspiration in the typical Russian Orthodox Iconostasis