Letters: Summer 1926

Perhaps it was the translation, but I didn't really enjoy this. It was on my "to read" shelf from 2010, so perhaps it is just a change in tastes. There were some really lovely moments in this work, but all and all it was a lot of wading through ego and esoterism to get to them.

A literary find with eloquent contributions by three of the leading poets of the twentieth century. A serendipitous moment in the 1920s allowed an aging Rilke to correspond with Pasternak and Tsvetayeva. It is the year that saw the debut of the first symphony by a nineteen-year-old Russian named Dmitri Shostakovich and The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence appeared in print. Yet, beside these events and others the trio of poetic greats were able to share their thoughts and feelings for a short while. Each has a passion for the solitary life of the artist but a need to share with like minds. This book records the result and makes a nice companion for their poetry.