Letters written to F.X.Kappus during the years 1903-1908 and a series of his responses to the young, would-be poets. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908.
Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.