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Rilke sends a letter to an aspiring young writer
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| Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Letters of Note:
In 1902, a 19-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus sent a letter and some of his work to the hugely influential Bohemian-Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, and politely asked for some feedback. Some months later, the following invaluable response reached Kappus, and it didn't end there — over the course of the next 5 years, Rilke continued to write to him with advice.
In 1929, three years after his idol's death, Franz Kappus published Rilke's ten letters in a book. [Read More]
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