The cycle of 55 sonnets that comprise Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" were written in a period of three weeks during 1922, a time which the poet himself described as a "savage creative storm." Inspired by the death of his daughter's friend, Wera Knoop, Rilke commenced to the production of "Sonnets to Orpheus," a work filled with mythological and biblical allusions. During the same burst of creative energy he set to working on the completion...

First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. This translation by Burton Pike is a reaction to overly stylized previous translations, and aims to capture not only the beauty but also the strangeness, the spirit, of Rilke's German.

Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l'Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l'un des artistes les plus reconnus de l'histoire. Bien qu'il soit considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la sculpture moderne, Rodin n'a jamais critiqué la tradition classique. Nombre de ses sculptures furent critiquées et controversées en raison de leur sensualité ou de leur réalité crue. Ses œuvres les plus originales...

The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic. Paris...

Heir to the precepts of antiquity and Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was just as influenced by Michelangelo, in particular by his Slaves. And like Michelangelo, Rodin, at the same time as receiving such honours as the Légion d'honneur (amongst others), was embroiled in many scandals and controversies during his career. His sculptures of Victor Hugo and Balzac were censured and The Kiss was deemed too erotic. However, despite racking up female...

This is a translation of Rilke's SELECTED NEW POEMS done by a German scholar and poet, Alice Derry. Derry herself has spent years studying Rilke, and has lived and worked in Germany.

Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l'Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l'un des artistes les plus reconnus de l'histoire. Bien qu'il soit considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la sculpture moderne, Rodin n'a jamais critiqué la tradition classique. Nombre de ses sculptures furent critiquées et controversées en raison de leur sensualité ou de leur réalité crue. Ses œuvres les plus originales...

Rainer Maria Rilke hinterließ seiner Nachwelt ein bedeutendes Werk aus Prosa, Lyrik, Essays, Briefen und Tagebüchern, darunter so bekannte Gedichte wie Der Panther oder Das Karussell oder unvergessliche ins Wort gehobene Gesten wie etwa "Wie soll ich meine Seele halten, dass / sie nicht an deine rührt?". Diese Auswahl aus seinem umfangreichen lyrischen Werk ermöglicht viele Entdeckungen und lässt erleben, wie Rilke "das deutsche Gedicht zum ersten...

Rainer Maria Rilke was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. Rilke traveled extensively throughout Europe, finally settling in Switzerland, the inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is best...

Los Nuevos poemas (1907) y De los nuevos poemas, la otra parte (1908) forman una unidad claramente diferenciada de su producción poética anterior, pero también de sus trabajos posteriores. En este libro, Rilke crea "poemas-obras" que representan una exploración lírica del mundo físico. La influencia de la escultura de Auguste Rodin —Rilke fue su secretario personal entre 1905 y 1906— es central para el desarrollo de su concepto de "cosa-arte"...