ISBN 9780882331805 | 0882331809 Textbooks - "Selected Poems" by AKHMATOVA Walter Arndt Anna Akhmatova Translator Anna Editor

Authors: AKHMATOVA - Walter Arndt - Anna Akhmatova - Translator - Anna; (Editor
ISBN 10: 0882331809
ISBN 13: 9780882331805
Release: January 16, 2009
Format: Paperback (202 pages)
List Price: $17.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, World Literature, United States,

Book Description:
Anna Akhmatova is identified, along with Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, as one of the four leading poets of Twentieth-Century Russian literature. Her poetry, classically rhymed and metered but also laconic and highly elliptical, is deeply engaged with predecessors such as Horace, Dante, Shakespeare, Byron, Dostoevsky, Annensky and above all Pushkin, and also with contemporaries such as Mandelstam, T.S. Eliot, and Gumilev, her husband, who was persecuted and finally executed by Stalin. The poems collected, including the masterworks "Requiem" and "Poem without a Hero," conjure intimations of the infinite and profound emotional depth through meditations on the perception of everyday objects and evocative settings, forming a powerful record of spiritual resilience. With an introductory essay by Walter Arndt, acclaimed translator of Russian literature, and translations by Arndt, Robin Kemball, and Carl R. Proffer, this volume provides the most authoritative and readable versions of Akhmatova’s poetry in English.

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Selected Poems