Author: Rainer Rilke

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, s...

This selection of poems from throughout Rilke''s creative output is arranged chronologically, placing poems of similar themes and / or modes of exp...

Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today...

In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a...

In fifty-five sonnets, Rilke plays an astonishing set of philosophical and sensual variations on the Orpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declar...

Perhaps no cycle of poems in any European language has made so profound and lasting an impact on an English-speaking readership as Rilke's Duino El...