* Siglind Bruhn: Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke ’ s Marienleben.

There was little initial reaction to Bachofen ’ s theory of cultural evolution, largely because of his impenetrable literary style, but eventually, as well as furious criticism, the book inspired several generations of ethnologists, social philosophers, and even writers: Lewis Henry Morgan, Friedrich Engels, who drew on Bachofen for Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Thomas Mann, Jane Ellen Harrison, who was inspired by Bachofen to devote her career to mythology, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Robert Graves, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph Campbell, Otto Gross and opponents such as Julius Evola.

Mitchell ’ s Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been called “ the most beautiful group of poetic translations the twentieth century has produced .” William Arrowsmith said that his Sonnets to Orpheus “ instantly makes every other rendering obsolete .” His Book of Job has been called “ magnificent .” His bestselling Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Gilgamesh — which are not translations from the original text, but rather poetic interpretations that use existing translations into Western languages as their starting point — have also been highly praised by critics, scholars, and common readers.

In the summer of 1902, Rilke left home and traveled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin.

At the same time, his encounter with modernism was very stimulating: Rilke became deeply involved in the sculpture of Rodin, and then with the work of Paul Cézanne.

Rodin taught him the value of objective observation, and under this influence Rilke dramatically transformed his poetic style from the subjective and sometimes incantatory language of his earlier work into something quite new in European literature.

Heavily influenced by the writings of Nietzsche, Rilke also incorporated the impressionistic techniques of artists such as Rodin and Cézanne.

So wrote Rilke in his monograph on Rodin 1903.

In January and February 1926 Rilke wrote three letters to the Mussolini-adversary Aurelia Gallarati Scotti, in which he praised Benito Mussolini and described fascism as a healing agent.

Later he developed a kind of non-traditional Christian philosophy, described in his work The Kingdom of God is Within You which inspired Rainer Maria Rilke and Mohandas Gandhi, then a young lawyer, whose influence extended to Martin Luther King.

The following year, he published " A Wrong Turning in American Poetry ", an essay in which he made a case against the influences of Eliot, Pound, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams, in favour of the more direct work of writers such as Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Antonio Machado, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Lowell followed Life Studies with Imitations ( 1961 ), a volume of loose translations of poems by classical and modern European poets, including Rilke, Montale, Baudelaire, Pasternak, and Rimbaud, for which he received the 1962 Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize.

A biography in Swedish on Lou Salomé, which also covers her relationship with Paul Rée, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud was edited in 2008 on Mita bokförlag by the Swedish author Mirjam Tapper.

A third to half the space in the early years of transition was given to translations, some of which done by Maria McDonald Jolas ; French writers included: André Breton, André Gide and the Peruvian Victor Llona ; German and Austrian poets and writers included Hugo Ball, Carl Einstein, Yvan Goll, Rainer Maria Rilke, René Schickele, August Stramm, Georg Trakl ; Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Yiddish, and Native American texts were also translated.

The battle of Mogersdorf / Szentgotthárd provided Rainer Maria Rilke with the inspiration for his poetic short story, " Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke ", which was very popular among German and Austrian soldiers during the first half of the 20th century.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (; 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 ), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet.

His father, Josef Rilke ( 1838 – 1906 ), became a railway official after an unsuccessful military career.

* December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet ( b. 1875 )

* December 4 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet ( d. 1926 )

Of particular note, Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace – her magnum opus, as well as completing translations of Rilke, Mann, Chekov, Veraline, Akmatova, Shakespeare, and Petrarch, among others, plus many other works including reference books and works for children.

* Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke ( Der Cornet ) ( 1942 – 1943 )

Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875 – 1926 ) was a poet.

Clara Westhoff ( 21 September 1878 in Bremen – 9 March 1954 in Fischerhude ) was a sculptress and the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

* 1985: Siegfried Matthus – Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, 16 February 1985

This line was developed in his large-scale works such as three Hymns ( 1987 – 1990 ), his 3rd and 4th Symphonies and an opera MR ( Marina and Rainer ) based on correspondence between Marina Tsvetaeva and Rainer Maria Rilke.

80 ( January – June 1926 ) Alexander Archipenko, Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, Adolf Dehn, Alfeo Faggi, Anatole France, Waldo Frank, Robert Hillyer, Augustus John, Nikolai Leskov, Aristide Maillol, Henry McBride, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Rosenfeld, Henri Rousseau, George Saintsbury, Gilbert Seldes, Scofield Thayer, Paul Valéry, Yvor Winters

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

* ... not being sundered ( 1992 ) ( text by Rainer Maria Rilke ) for soprano, flute, cello

The relationship between Rilke and Clara Westhoff continued for the rest of his life ; a mutually agreed-upon effort at divorce was bureaucratically hindered by Rilke's " official " status as a Catholic, though he was the very opposite of observant.

In " Klage Um Antinous ," Der Neuen Gedichte, Anderer Teil ( 1908 ) Rainer Maria Rilke, Hadrian scolds the gods for Antinous's deification.

The sonnets, remarkable for their frank eroticism, have been her most famous works following the early modern period, and were translated into German by Rainer Maria Rilke and into Dutch by Pieter Cornelis Boutens.

Leise weht ein erstes Blühn (' Softly Drifts a First Blossom '; Rilke ), for voice & piano

An exception is the use of Maria for males ( among Catholics ), but not as a first given name ; so Rainer Maria Rilke would be admissible, but Maria Rainer Rilke would not be.

** Lorraine Hunt Lieberson for Rilke Songs

In 2003, he completed, a song-cycle for soprano and orchestra inspired by poems and letters by Prithwindra Mukherjee, Rainer Maria Rilke, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vincent van Gogh.

" And in another book review for Jarrell's Selected Poems, a few years later, fellow-poet Karl Shapiro compared Jarrell to " the great modern Rainer Maria Rilke " and stated that the book " should certainly influence our poetry for the better.

Franz Werfel had first served as a corporal and telephone operator in the artillery corps of the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War on the Russian front and later as a propaganda writer for the Military Press Bureau ( with Rainer Maria Rilke and others ) in Vienna.

Etty had been reading other authors, such as Rilke and Dostoevsky, since the 1930s, but under Spier's influence their work also took on deeper meaning for her.

The English translation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Ina Rilke is published by the company Knopf and has been praised for its clarity .”

Duino is noted for being the place where the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann died and for inspiring the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to write his Duino Elegies.

Bridge Records has been nominated for twenty-four Grammy Awards and has received three-for Best Contemporary Composition for George Crumb's " Star-Child " ( 2001 ) ( BRIDGE 9099 David Starobin, Producer ); for Best Classical Vocal Recording for Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Peter Serkin's performance of Peter Lieberson's " Rilke Songs " ( BRIDGE 9178, David Starobin, Producer )( 2007 ); and for Garrick Ohlsson's Beethoven Sonatas, Vol.