The centenary of the Swiss poet and translator Philippe Jaccottet, winner of both the Schiller and Goncourt literary prizes, ...

Andrei Tarkovsky’s films are meditative excursions, expansive, breathtaking, and contemplative. When watching his films, you ...

Located in Huize county, Qujing in Yunnan province, the bookstore is a new branch of the Nanjing-based bookstore chain, ...

His quaint Bouldin Creek home is stacked with books, and scattered scraps of paper with poetry drafts and translations he’s working on. Currently, he’s translating a 19th-century German poem ...

The TLS’s reviewer for J. B. Leishman’s translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poems 1906–1926 (1957) was not impressed. “It is little short of a tragedy”, she wrote, “that verses by the poet who made ...

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 ...

Thus one of Rilke’s most characteristic devices is the expression of human life in terms of landscape: O Mädchen, dies: das wir liebten in uns, nicht Eines, ein Künftiges, sondern ...

Rainer Maria Rilke and the Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker met in the summer of 1900 in the German artists’ colony of Worpswede, which lies to the north of Bremen in a flat, windswept ...

erman-language poetry from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century produced three superstars: Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George. Among them, they ...