He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she was the ber-muse of Europe's turn-of-the-century thinkers and artists. In this never-before-translated collection of letters spanning almost thirty years, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salom , a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that moves from that of lovers to that of mentor and prot g , to that of deepest personal and...