The Mitgefühl (“feeling-with”) that can spring up between a poet and translator may mitigate such presumption. The splendid translations of Rilke by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebman aim right for his ...

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 ...

The confidence that Kappus saw in the hand of his correspondent offered an inverse image of the self-doubt that had led him, months earlier, to write to that man—the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

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 ...

And it was contagious. A surprising new book reveals how Rodin’s way with words inspired Rainer Maria Rilke as a young poet. Who knew that Rodin in his 60s met, inspired, and shaped Rilke in his ...

In the 20 th-century annals of German poetry, he shares pre-eminence with Rilke, who was no paragon of humanity either. Rilke’s fame, however, was based on the assumption that he embodied art ...

Originally published on May 13, 2021. In his letters and poetry, Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke urged us to "love the questions" instead of searching for answers, and to "sing out" with pain ...

The second event was a letter he received from his father with the news that Rilke had read some of his poems in a Paris journal, which stunned and delighted him. Rilke sent Pasternak his ...

ECSTASY: Poems, by Alex Dimitrov In his seminal “Letters to a Young Poet,” Rainer Maria Rilke encourages his long-distance apprentice to be as patient as possible with everything unsolved in ...

To distinguish it from selfish or cowardly indifference may at the time be difficult for the outsider, but Rilke’s poetry and these letters are proof enough of his integrity and real suffering ...