{"product_id":"penguin-classics-letters-to-a-young-poet-paperback","title":"Penguin Classics - Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"398\"\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 writers and artists of all kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"552\"\u003eThis book also contains the \u003cem data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"456\"\u003eLetter from a Young Worker\u003c\/em\u003e, a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter form near the end of Rilke's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"836\"\u003eIn Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"918\"\u003eThis edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr data-start=\"920\" data-end=\"923\"\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"947\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"945\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1368\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"971\"\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/strong\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 \u003cem data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1209\"\u003eThe Sonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1214\" data-end=\"1233\"\u003eThe Duino Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e; his two most famous prose works are \u003cem data-start=\"1271\" data-end=\"1296\"\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/em\u003e and the semiautobiographical \u003cem data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1366\"\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1370\" data-end=\"1523\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1370\" data-end=\"1387\"\u003eCharlie Louth\u003c\/strong\u003e is a fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the author of \u003cem data-start=\"1477\" data-end=\"1521\"\u003eHölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1830\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1539\"\u003eLewis Hyde\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the hundred-million-copy bestseller \u003cem data-start=\"1593\" data-end=\"1604\"\u003eThe Gift.\u003c\/em\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","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44644296720591,"sku":"9780141192321","price":19.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_e7c22967-274d-44d7-84a0-61e27b6e35fc.jpg?v=1761537031","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/penguin-classics-letters-to-a-young-poet-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}