Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied
literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague,
and is often considered one of the German language's greatest 20th
century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets
to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works
are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Charlie Louth was born in 1969 in Bristol. He is a Fellow of the
Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the
author of H lderlin and the Dynamics of Translation (1998).
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A
MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative
writing at Harvard University, Hyde is a Fellow at Harvard's
Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
...I cannot think of a better book to put into the hands of any
young would-be poet, as an inspirational guide to poetry and to
surviving as a poet in a hostile world.
*The Times*
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