A huge collection of letters and manuscripts by modernist poet Rainer Maria Rilke has been handed over to the public German Literature Archive (DLA), the archive said Thursday. Known as the so ...

In late 1912, German poet Rainer Maria Rilke had a titanic case of writer’s block. Unable to find poetic inspiration, he left his home in Paris and travelled to Ronda, a spectacular town in the ...

Rilke in these poems is strictly of this world. Art is his religion. The marble torso of the Apollo poem, turning its searchlight on you in the last two lines, discovers your untruth to yourself: ...

Though reading Rilke would be a bad reason to learn German, if you have done so, he rewards you by proving, especially in such short lyrics as “Das Karrussel,” that he really was a wonderful poet.

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 ...

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) has been called Germany’s greatest lyric poet since Goethe and Heine. In mirroring his milieu (which had seen the wave of unbelief in his nation reach and pass ...

Rilke, the poet, on the other hand, resisted Freud's optimism. Some things are simply lost, once and for all. There is no growth, no transformation, just absence.

Not the least interesting phenomenon of the last four years has been the growing influence of Rilke upon English poetry: indeed, Rilke is probably more read and more highly esteemed by English and ...

But Rilke was her biggest coup. She met the unknown German-speaking poet from Prague in 1897 when he was 21 and she, fifteen years his senior, already a well-known essayist and cultural personality.