matt reviewed Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet (original title, in German: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter) is …
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4 stars
Rilke has a soothing prose style, and a great confidence in the value of deeply personal experience. I would hesitate to take his relationship advice, although I think it's fundamentally well founded. It's odd reading only one half of a correspondence.