A Study of Rilke’s Poetry

Course Code: LIT2609

Start Date: 26/02/2026

Day of the Week:

Thursday

Session: Morning

Delivery method: Centre Only

Length in weeks: 5

Time: 10am-12pm

Price: £

This five week course explores the intersection between Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and the broader world of  of modern art, focusing on his relationship with key figures such as the painter Paul Cezanne. Rilke, one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century, was deeply engaged with the changing cultural and artistic landscapes of the time. His famous Sonnets to Orpheus are contemporaneous with T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

Students will need to bring along a copy of the following edition.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems with parallel German text, translated by Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland. Oxford World’s Classics