DEEP DIVE: Letters to a Young Poet, Part 1

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

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DEEP DIVE: Letters to a Young Poet, Part 1

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July 28, 2021

For all of us who have struggled with the questions of “Am I an artist?” “Am I any good?” “What does it mean to be an artist?” —and I dare say that is all of us—I hope you will come along with me to 1903 to a small Parisian apartment where 27-year-old Austrian poet and novelist RAINER MARIA RILKE has taken pen to paper to respond to an aspiring young writer’s inquiry, “Are my poems any good?” 

In the ten letters that follow, Rilke captures all that torments and inspires those who cannot escape the need to create. Whether this is your first or fiftieth time to consider Rilke’s words, it is impossible to leave the experience uninspired or uncomforted.

 Mentioned:

• Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (read) 
• The Poetry of Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke (read)  
• Isn’t Love A Grand Old Thing, Billy Murrary and Ada Jones (1909), available through the Library of Congress (hear) 
• Niels Lyhne, Jens Peter Jacobsen (read) 
• Marie Grubbe, Jens Peter Jacobsen (read) 
• Richard Dehmel, poet (learn) 
• Visual interpretations of Letters to a Young Poet (see) 
• Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, Paula Modersohn Becker (1909) (see)

Find Me, Kristy Darnell Battani:
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