num_pages: 288
description: These literary letters give the account of Rainer Maria Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of The Great War; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future.
language: English
title: Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1914-1921
titlecomplete: Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1914-1921
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 8
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company