Two key works of the great modern poet, Rainer Maria Rilke.

In the first work that we present in this edition, Letters to a young poet, a young man with the will of a poet, Franz Xaver Kappus, sends his best verses to a consecrated artist, Rainer Maria Rilke, requesting his opinion. In his response letters, Rilke does not engage in literary criticism but delves into the very essence of poetry and art: why write, why create, what and how to search. Loneliness and suffering as a substrate for the development of the individual. An intimate dialogue that takes on new life in the Duino Elegies that complete this volume, ten poems whose theme oscillates permanently between life and death and man's relationship with the world, and whose lyrical style, symbolic images and spiritual reflections place to this work at the summit of universal poetry.