Letters to a Young Poet The Norton Centenary Editi David Rooney is reshaping what it means

is reshaping what it means to be human

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Letters to a Young Poet The Norton Centenary Editi David Rooney is reshaping what it meansThis slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen year old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, William Warder Norton, founded the company that bears his name played a