"Letters To A Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke is a prosaic work, but it refers directly to poetry. There are ten letters written to a young man about to enter the German military. In the very beginning of the 1903, Rilke received a letter from a twentyyear old lieutenant of AustroHungarian army Franz Kappus. Verses were enclosed to the letter the lieutenant turned out to be a poet. Rilke answered. Rilke wrote Franz Kappus ten letters the last of them is dated by December 1908. After Rilkes death, the letters were published in a separate book entitled "Letters To A Young Poet". Of all Rilkes extensive correspondence, these letters won the greatest popularity. It is explained by their content there is nothing personal or private in them Rilke wrote about the poetry, nature of poetic works, irony, loneliness, love etc. His philosophyaesthetic views of that time are well reflected in these letters.

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