Taken individually, each of the letters on loss, which Rilke wrote to different recipients but with the same single-minded intent to assist someone in mourning, may offer solace for anyone dealing with a personal loss.

Together they tell a story leading from an unflinching and honest acknowledgment of death to transformation, just as Rilke’s well-known Letters to a Young Poet recounts the story from unflinching self-reckoning and the acceptance of solitude to serious self-transformation. They have now been gathered for the first time into a short volume that offers Rilke’s highly original and accessible reflections on loss, grief and mortality. For nearly 100 years, most of their sometimes bracing and always powerful insights have been hidden in plain sight, or rather buried in a disorganized and partly irretrievable set of publications and archives on two continents. Among this vast correspondence are 23 letters of condolence. At the time of his death in 1926 at the age of 51, Rilke had written over 14,000 letters which he considered to be as significant and worthy of publication as his poetry and prose.

Throughout his life, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 -1926) wrote letters to close friends as well as individuals who had read his poetry but did not know him personally. OL16465080W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 78.26 Pages 94 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230507142440 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 190 Scandate 20230505215549 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780810127401 Tts_version 5.By Rainer Maria Rilke SeptemArts & Culture

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Rilke letter 8