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This volume includes Ten Letters to a Young Poet and Letters on Aesthetic Education. The former is a letter written by Rilke to a young poet when he was about thirty years old. In his letter, he talked about the many doubts and sorrows faced by young people: poetry and art, love between the sexes, seriousness and cynicism, sorrow and doubt, difficulties in life and career, revealing the profound nature of aesthetics, faith, loneliness, love, sorrow and other topics. The latter are 27 letters written by Schiller to the Duke of Augustenburg in Denmark between 1793 and 1794. In the context of the French Revolution, Schiller based on Kant's principles, profoundly analyzed many topics in aesthetics, and believed that in order to reform the country and gain political freedom, we must first improve the character of the times and restore the integrity of human nature. Political issues must be solved through aesthetic issues. Only through beauty can people move toward freedom.