Charlotte Rampling With Compliments

Rilke is perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century European poets. He was born in Prague in 1875 but much of his life is characterized by a restless wandering which brought him into contact with some of the greatest figures of the age, among them Lou Andreas-Salome, Tolstoy, Rodin and Cezanne. He died in Switzerland in 1926. With two exceptions this selection is made exclusively from the five volumes of letters published by the Inselverlag up to 1935, covering the period 1902 to 1926. (from book's Notes)