Empathy—the idea, the thing itself—whirls through Rachel Corbett’s elegant new study of Auguste Rodin and Rainer Maria Rilke like a wind. After all, the title of book, You Must Change Your Life, which ...

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 ...

How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...

First-time author Corbett traces the lives of two great artists, poet Rainer Maria Rilke and sculptor Auguste Rodin, in a smartly written biography. Corbett begins, somewhat shakily, by sketching in ...

In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke went to Paris to write a monograph about Auguste Rodin. Ten days into the trip, the young poet confessed that he had an ulterior motive for taking the assignment. “It is ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Walking across Paris in 1902, the aspirant poet Rainer Maria Rilke fell into step with a man suffering from the ...

In 1902, the young German poet Rainer Maria Rilke was commissioned to write a short book about the world's most famous sculptor, France's Auguste Rodin. The two met in Paris, where they got along well ...

HMSG copy 39088020055364 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke -- then a struggling poet in Germany -- went to Paris to research and write a short book ...