Poetry in sculpture: Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
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Rainer Maria Rilke's poems creatively expressed ideas that are hard to put into words, and his writings on the work of sculptor Auguste Rodin glorified their skill at creating tiny surfaces that reflect light to bring sculptures to life.\\xa0
The poet\\u2019s apparent hero worship of Rodin\\u2019s sculpting talents is of great interest to Dr Nicholas Reynolds, a Lecturer in Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University, Texas.\\xa0 But it was a turbulent relationship that led to a final break in 1913, which echoes one of Rilke\\u2019s prose stories that suggests that two masters cannot be in the same room.\\xa0
Read the original chapter: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74470-0_7
Listen to more about Dr Reynolds work in a previous episode here