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First Vintage Books Edition, November 1986
Copyright © 1984 by Stephen MitchellAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United Slates by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. This translation originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataRilke, Rainer Maria, 1875–1926.Letters to a young poet.Translation of: Briefe an einen jungen DichterLetters written to Franz Kappus, 1903–1908.1. Rilke. Rainer Maria. 1875–1926–Correspondence.2. Kappus, Franz Xaver, 1883–1966—Correspondence.3. Authors, German—20th century—Correspondence.I. Kappus, Franz Xaver, 1883–1966.II. Mitchell, Stephen.III. Title.PT2635.165z488    1987    831′.912    86-40669eISBN: 978-0-307-78723-1
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Acknowledgments
About the Author
FOREWORD
These extraordinary letters were my introduction to Rilke. I remember first opening the small, light-green cover of the French translation, given to me in Paris by a girl I was in love with when I was nineteen: when both love and the German language were more alien to me than the moon. The book was a revelation. I had never heard a voice speaking out of such deep understanding, with such authority. I felt, as many readers have felt, that the letters were written for me. From the very first pages, where solitude is considered as a positive experience (I had thought of it as a kind of disease), my life seemed to acquire a new clarity and sanction. So, even before I read a line of Rilke’s poetry, I regarded him as a spiritual teacher and came to treat him, in that small, light-green-covered book, with the greatest respect, the way some people keep their copy of the I Ching wrapped in silk.
The “young poet” of the title was also nineteen, a military student named Franz Xaver Kappus. In his introduction to the original edition, he tells how the correspondence began. He was sitting under the ancient chestnut trees in the park of the Military Academy of Wiener Neustadt one day in the autumn of 1902, reading an early collection of Rilke’s poems, when the school’s chaplain, Professor Horacek, came up to him, took the book from his hands, looked at the cover, thumbed through the pages, and finally sa ............

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