{"product_id":"letters-to-a-young-poet-9780143107149","title":"Letters to a Young Poet","description":"\u003cb\u003eRilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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 lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and artists of all kinds, including Lady Gaga and Patti Smith. With honesty, elegance, and a deep understanding of the loneliness that often comes with being an artist, Rilke's letters are an endless source of inspiration and comfort. Lewis Hyde's new introduction explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition also includes Rilke's later work \u003ci\u003eThe Letter from the Young Worker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/b\u003e (1875-1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e; his two most famous prose works are \u003ci\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e and the semiautobiographical \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlie Louth\u003c\/b\u003e is a fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the author of Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis Hyde\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the hundred-million-copy bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e. A MacArthur fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Gambier, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619636482322,"sku":"9780143107149","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5bd49c7a-1bba-4467-a9ee-3c09ee753f40.jpg?v=1764754612","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-to-a-young-poet-9780143107149","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}