Writer Lesley Chamberlain, New Generation Thinker Seán Williams and composer Ninfea Crutwell-Reade join Anne McElvoy to look at poet Rainer Maria Rilke's life and legacy. Show more A New Age mystic ...

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 its crest ...

Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most influential poets of literary modernism, was born 150 years ago. In this interview, literature professor Sandra Richter discusses what shaped him as a person and ...

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 ...

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A New Age mystic who fell out of favour for his apolitical views - how true a characterisation is this of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) ? Anne McElvoy discusses the work and ...