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Letters to a Young Poet new-arrivals-140822 A comprehensive reference manual ofIn 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), replied to the novice in this series of lettersan amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest poetry. The ten letters reproduced here were written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, and they contain many of the