In this book review, I’ll try and analyze the letters from my perspective and try to bring out certain parts of the letters that touched my heart. The book was one of the best sets of letters I have read in a long while and I highly recommend the book to every creative soul out there looking for written inspiration to validate their way of life. Rilke is an intellectual, deep, and profound. In this book, Rilke shows himself to have a deep understanding of the human psyche, its weaknesses, and the reality of what it means to adopt the life of an artist, writer, or poet. Rilke was struggling with his career, yet he was so taken up with Kappus having written to him about counseling that he wrote these letters in reply or as advice to Kappus’s mixed feelings about being a writer/poet. Rilke himself was between the ages of 28 and 33 when he wrote these inspirational letters to Kappus. Letters to a Young Poet is a collection of ten letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke in response to a query from a young struggling poet named Franz Xaver Kappus. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke: Book Review Part 1
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