- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Rilke wants Kappus to set aside his desire for affirmation and approval. The young poet wants to know if his poetry is good, but Rilke suggests that Kappus shouldn’t even be thinking about such things. He is, after all, still developing as poet, so he should focus on the work itself instead of turning to others in the hopes that they’ll tell him something encouraging or valuable about his writing. Rilke’s advice in this section of the letter is applicable to most new writers who are eager to make a name for themselves. If new poets fixate on whether or…