Rainer Maria Rilke

Canonico, Daniel, Hunton, Pritchard, et al. Set for Want the Change

Past and present performers of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening will come together for Want the Change , an evening to benefit the Actors Fund and IRT Theater's Artist In Residency program, to be held at...

Rainer Maria Rilke Biography

Czech-Austrian Poet, Novelist and Writer Brief biography and work of Rainer Maria Rilke, famous for Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies. Rainer Maria Rilke was an outstanding lyric poet and one of the most important figures in...

Boris Pasternak Biography

Celebrated 20th-Century Russian Poet and Novelist Biography of Boris Pasternak and his famous epic novel Doctor Zhivago. Early Life of Boris Pasternak Pasternak was born in Moscow on February 10, 1890. His parents were a...

The Credit Crunch and Managing Motivation

The Credit Crunch and Managing Motivation: goal-set to motivate your success through ’singing’ your ‘uni-verse’ In my work as a life-coach I energize people to get from where they are at, to where they want to be. Getting in...

Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques

A Closer Look at The Artist's Famous Circus Painting Picasso's beautifully haunting Family of Saltimbanques shows the work of an artist moving from one phase of greatness to the next. Pablo Picasso’s 1905 painting Family of...

Overcoming the Babylonian confusion of tongues via poetry

Translating lyrical poetry into a foreign language is not an easy endeavor, and its difficulties have made generations of poets worldwide brood over it. How to do justice to a poet whose work is not directly accessible, but has...

Winning does not tempt that man…

Let us begin, now, finally, to fight the great things.... yesterday was not a victory for one man, it was a victory for all of us, against those devils that have beset our national spirit. Time to heal, at last... for all of...

James Joyce in Trieste, Italy

Irish novelist finds a welcome in cosmopolitan imperial city The port city of Trieste was both a refuge and an inspiration to Irish writer James Joyce, who lived there for nearly eleven years between 1904 and 1920. Nearly 100...