Re:Letter to a young poet by Virginia Woolf (1932)
by bambax on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:12PM
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It's striking how ambitious hotshots receiving letters from famous and accomplished people never seem to amount to much. We never would have learned about the mere existence of Lucilius if not for the lectures he got from Seneca.
Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters that were published as "Letters to a Young Poet" in 1929 (posthumously). These were, in fact, genuine letters from Rilke to a young poet (who was the one who eventually published the letters).
Virginia Woolf wrote and published "A Letter to a Young Poet" in 1932 (the OP here), as an epistolary letter prompted by the writer John Lehman (who was ultimately dissatisfied with Woolf's work).