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'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A
hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds,
Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on
writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself. One
of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to
celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives
readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with
works from around the world and across the centuries - including
fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles
and elephants.
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Letters to a Young Poet (Hardcover)
Charlie Louth; Rainer Maria Rilke; Edited by Charlie Louth; Introduction by Lewis Hyde; Notes by Charlie Louth; Translated by …
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. 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.
Friedrich Holderlin's translations have long been seen as some of
the most fascinating ever made, so radical and unconventional that
they have altered our ideas of what translation is. Based on a
close study of the versions of Pindar and Sophocles, and placing
Holderlin's practice in its 18th-century context, this book
explores the meaning of translation for Holderlin's work as a
whole, devoting particular attention to the poetry. The author
draws links between translations, individual poems, essays and
Holderlin'a working techniques, and suggests that translation, both
as figure and practice, is at the centre of Holderlin's imaginative
world.
The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H.
Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws
on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political
and religious essays. It justifies what his peers and critics said
of him. Of the poems Donald Hall wrote in the New York Times Book
Review that they 'move in service of the loved landscapes of
England and France, they sing (and growl) in love of argument, in
love of seeing through [ - ]; they move in love of the old lost
life by which the new life is condemned.' Writing of his essays in
the same pages Louis Simpson notes 'his fearless views'. 'Mr Sisson
isn't afraid to say what he thinks. He isn't looking over his
shoulder at an establishment as he writes.' Jasper Griffin in the
Times Literary Supplement dubbed him 'one of the great translators
of our time'. As a writer he was always starting anew, rejecting,
he said, 'whatever appeared with the face of familiarity' and
referring the present to those defining periods of English and
European history and culture that tried humanity and languages most
harshly: the seventeenth century, for example, and the twentieth.
Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet At
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 generations of writers and artists of all kinds,
including Lady Gaga and Patti Smith. With honesty, elegance, and a
deep understanding of the loneliness that often comes with being an
artist, Rilke's letters are an endless source of inspiration and
comfort. Lewis Hyde's new introduction explores the context in
which these letters were written and how the author embraced his
isolation as a creative force. This edition also includes Rilke's
later work "The Letter from the Young Worker."
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Essays and Letters (Paperback)
Friedrich Hoelderlin; Edited by Charlie Louth, Jeremy Adler
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One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich
Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling,
intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected
letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this
extraordinary writer. Hoelderlin's letters to friends and fellow
writers such as Hegel, Schiller and Goethe describe his development
as a poet, while those written to his family speak with great
passion of his beliefs and aspirations, as well as revealing money
worries and, finally, the tragic unravelling of his sanity. These
works examine Hoelderlin's great preoccupations - the unity of
existence, the relationship between art and nature and, above all,
the spirit of the writer.
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Letters to a Young Poet (Hardcover)
Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Charlie Louth; Introduction by Lewis Hyde
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Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now
available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin edition At 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
generations of writers and artists of all kinds, including Lady
Gaga and Patti Smith. With honesty, elegance, and a deep
understanding of the loneliness that often comes with being an
artist, Rilke's letters are an endless source of inspiration and
comfort. Lewis Hyde's new introduction explores the context in
which these letters were written and how the author embraced his
isolation as a creative force. This edition also includes Rilke's
later work "The Letter from the Young Worker."
The life of Rilke’s work is in its words, and this book attends
closely to the life unfolding in Rilke’s words over the course of
his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read?
What does reading involve? These are questions of the greatest
interest to Rilke, who addresses them in several poems and for whom
the experience of reading affords an interaction with the world—a
recalibration of our ways of attending to it—which sets it apart
from other kinds of experience. Rilke’s work is often approached
in periods—he is the author of the New Poems, or of Malte, or of
the Duino Elegies, or of the Sonnets to Orpheus—as if its
different phases had little to do with one another, but in fact his
writing is a concentrated and evolving exploration of the
possibilities of poetic language, a working of the life of words
into precise and exacting forms in dialogue with the texture of the
world. The Life of the Work traces that trajectory in a series of
close readings that do not neglect the lesser-known, uncollected
verse and the poems in French, as well as Rilke’s activity as a
translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Barrett Browning,
Mallarmé, and Valéry, among many others. These encounters were
part of Rilke’s engagement with the world, his way of extending
the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the ungraspable
movements, the risk and promise, of life itself. One of his
best-known poems ends with the words ‘You must change your
life’, an injunction that animates the whole of his work.
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