Franz xaver kappus biography of martin

Collection of letters by Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet (original title, in German: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter) is a collection of ten letters written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (–) to Franz Xaver Kappus (–), a year-old officer cadet at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, between and Rilke, the son of an Austrian army officer, had studied at the academy's lower school at Sankt Pölten in the s.

A series of ten letters (and one lost letter) written by Rainer Maria Rilke to a young poet from February to December

At 27, the poet Rainier Maria Rilke struck up a correspondence with a year-old military cadet named Franz Xaver Kappus, and the letters.

Franz Xaver Kappus was an Austrian journalist, poet, writer and military officer.

He painted him as a quiet, earnest, extremely clever young fellow, who liked keeping to himself, put up patiently with the discipline of the boarding school and.

In , a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry.

Kappus corresponded with the popular poet and author from to seeking his advice as to the quality of his poetry, and in deciding between a literary career or a career as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Kappus compiled and published the letters in —three years after Rilke's death from leukemia.

In the first letter, Rilke respectfully declines to review or criticize Kappus' poetry, advising the younger Kappus that "Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself