LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET(给年青诗人的信)
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品牌: Rainer Maria Rilke
基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
·页码：123 页
·出版日期：1993年
·ISBN：0393310396
·条形码：9780393310399
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：给年青诗人的信
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内容简介A beloved classic of writerly wisdom.Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote these letters.
作者简介Rainer Marie Rilke, the great Austro-German poet, was the author of many works includingDuino ElegiesandSonnets to Orpheus.
Stephen Mitchell's translations include Ahead ofAll Parting: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Job,Tao Te Ching, and, most recently,Bhagavad-Gita. He lives in California.
From the Paperback edition.--This text refers to theMass Market Paperbackedition.
编辑推荐Amazon.com Review
It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke'sLetters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether youmustcreate. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both inLetters to a Young Poet.--Jennifer Buckendorff
Review
" The common reader will be delighted by Stephen Mitchell's new translation of that slim and beloved volume by Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet . . . the best yet."
--"Los Angeles Times""From the Hardcover edition."
"The common reader will be delighted by Stephen Mitchell?s new translation of that slim and beloved volume by Rilke,Letters to a Young Poet. . . the best yet."
--Los Angeles Times
From the Hardcover edition.--Review--This text refers to theMass Market Paperbackedition.
Review
"The common reader will be delighted by Stephen Mitchell’s new translation of that slim and beloved volume by Rilke,Letters to a Young Poet. . . the best yet."
--Los Angeles Times
From the Hardcover edition.--This text refers to theMass Market Paperbackedition.