NMLP P-045451 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · Insel-Verlag, Leipzig · 1929

Original-language true first = Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, 1929 (Insel-Bücherei No. 406). First English = W.W. Norton, New York, 1934 (M.D. Herter Norton) — US precedes UK; the first British translation (Reginald Snell, Sidgwick & Jackson) did not appear until 1945 (some sources 1950), well after the Norton first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-045451 for "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045451, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).