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 ...

Griot Gabriel is from Manchester, and founded The Poetry Place. In 2025 he won the Forward Prize for 'Best Single Poem – ...

Rilke's diary-like text without a plot or chronology ended up becoming a trailblazer for contemporary storytelling. The acclaimed poet's only novel heralded an identity crisis in literature. Only can ...

Ronda, Spain(Forest Woodward/ Getty Images) 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 ...

*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 ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? It is said that the tradition of English poetry began with Caedmon–an ...

For those who look on the arts as a kind of celestial sports competition, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is up there with Bertolt Brecht for the title of German Poet of the 20 th Century. The standard ...

As a lover of famous correspondence, especially extraordinary love letters, and of Rainer Maria Rilke, I was instantly enamored with Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters (public ...

Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all ...