# Letters to a Young Poet

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- Book: [Letters to a Young Poet](https://www.bookquiver.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet) ([Letters to a Young Poet.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rainer-maria-rilke/letters-to-a-young-poet.md))
- Authors: [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://www.bookquiver.com/rainer-maria-rilke)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4162-003-8
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2023-02-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Over the course of six years, Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This volume also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written too in letter form.