Signature of Auguste Rodin on “The Thinker” (photo by Daniel Schwen, via Wikimedia Commons) It might seem strange to open this review with Auguste Rodin‘s signature on his sculpture “The Thinker.” But ...

I feel almost ashamed to say that it’s taken all these years to finally get around to reading Rainer Maria Rilke in earnest. As an undergraduate, decades ago, I heard all kinds of great things about ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Score one for contemporary music at the Cleveland Orchestra. This week at Severance Hall, it’s the new piece that shines the brightest. This was with a war-horse in the running, too.

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 ...

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 ...

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In 1915, Sigmund Freud wrote a short text on loss and how to cope with it. Freud's essay, entitled “Vergänglichkeit” [German for transience], recalled a meeting between himself and a “young but ...