For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke 's Letters to a Young Poet , first published in 1929.
Most readers and scholars assumed that the letters from young poet were forever lost to posterity.
Yet, shockingly, the letters were recently discovered by Erich Unglaub, a Rilke scholar, and published in German in 2019.
The acclaimed translator Damion Searls has no.