Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) had been widely known for decades when the young Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to interview him for an essay to be published in a German art book series.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), widely considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, is best known for the lyric sequences the "Duino Elegies" and the "Sonnets to Orpheus". Alexandra Parigoris teaches history at the University of Leeds, where she is Henry Moore Fellow.