Letters to a Young Poet Condition:Well Read often defeated lives with unflinching

often defeated lives with unflinching realism

or is his world just one among many others

Author: Rudolf Carnap

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Letters to a Young Poet Condition:Well Read often defeated lives with unflinchingIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), replied to the novice in this series of lettersan amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest poetry. The ten letters reproduced here were written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, and they contain many of the