Rainer Maria Rilke, Author, Angela Esterhammer, Translator University Press of New England $18.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-87451-661-6 These two tales, here translated into English for the first time, reveal ...
Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most influential poets of literary modernism, was born 150 years ago. In this interview, literature professor Sandra Richter discusses what shaped him as a person and ...
A New Age mystic who fell out of favour for his apolitical views - how true a characterisation is this of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)? Anne McElvoy discusses the work and legacy ...
Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke is treated almost like a pop star on social media. More than 150 years after his birth, young influencers enthusiastically interpret his poetry. What makes him still ...
How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...
James Ensor’s L’Intrigue, 1890. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) “Paris is a difficult place,” Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to a friend on New Year’s Eve, 1902. “And the beautiful things here and there do ...
Artnet: Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke Had a Strange, Moody Friendship
Empathy—the idea, the thing itself—whirls through Rachel Corbett’s elegant new study of Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke like a wind. After all, the title of book, You Must Change Your Life, which ...
Artnet: In the New Book ‘Letters to a Young Painter,’ Rainer Maria Rilke Dispenses Advice to a Teenage Balthus
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke went to Paris to write a monograph about Auguste Rodin. Ten days into the trip, the young poet confessed that he had an ulterior motive for taking the assignment. “It is ...