Four Unposted Letters to Catherine - Hardcover

Jackson, Laura (Riding)

 
9780892551927: Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0892551925 ISBN 13: 9780892551927
Verlag: PERSEA BOOKS INC, 1993

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Letters written by the poet to an eight-year-old girl explain the difference between learning and knowing, the value of thinking, and the benefits of avoiding hypocrisy and pretension

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Like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, this remarkable little book of wisdom and advice refreshes the mind and renews the spirit. Written in 1930 and published in Paris by the Hours Press in a limited edition of only two hundred, these letters were addressed to an eight-year-old girl, the "thoughtful and sensible" child of Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves. But they were also meant for adults who might have such a child in their spirit. In simple, luminous language, Laura Riding explains the difference between learning and knowing; the value of thinking, of doing, and of not-showing-off; and how it is good to live straight, avoiding the hypocrisies and pretensions of "the muddle". Here is a literary treasure to be shared between generations. For many readers, it will also serve as an invaluable key to the thought of this astonishingly original writer.

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Verlag
PERSEA BOOKS INC
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0892551925
ISBN 13 
9780892551927
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
79
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