Three Tuesdays: January 16, 23, and 30 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET Online
Lecture and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
“You must change your life”. Join us this winter as we dive into the work of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), who wrote the above quote and is acknowledged one of the most important writers of the 19th and 20th Century. We’ll discuss why his works are considered not just enduring but immortal. Rilke captured what Robert Hass calls “the huge nakedness and poverty of human longing”, and many consider his writing to be the most lyrical of any poet’s. Rilke sought to find in art a way to transform the emptiness of the human experience.
Three Tuesdays: January 16, 23, and 30 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET Online
Required Reading:
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke and translated by Stephen Mitchell (9780679722014)
Gigi Bradford is the founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Board and former Literature Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been teaching at Politics and Prose since 2006.
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
