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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austro-German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902.
Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter) was published posthumously in the three years following Rainer Maria Rilke’s death in 1926. The collection consists of ten letters written to Franz Xaver Kappus between 1903 and 1908.1
While the original German work was released shortly after his death, the first English translation of these letters did not appear until 1934.1