Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet - Sadness And Transformation - Sadler's Lectures
Sadler's Lectures
English - November 29, 2019 13:13 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This lecture discusses the 20th century poet, novelist, and philosopher, Rainer Maria Rilke's work Letters to a Young Poet, and examines in particular his discussion of the nature and meaning of sadness. Rilke does not view all sadness as negative, and suggests that some experiences of that emotion may be ways in which we prepare for self-transformation
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