Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems

Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems PDF Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Akhmatova was unquestionably one of the great poets of the 20th century. These exquisite translations convey the subtle beauties and daring associations of a poet whose long life proved poetry's capacity for survival and subversive resistance to tyranny.

Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems

Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems PDF Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
Akhmatova was unquestionably one of the great poets of the 20th century. These exquisite translations convey the subtle beauties and daring associations of a poet whose long life proved poetry's capacity for survival and subversive resistance to tyranny.

Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems

Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems PDF Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
Akhmatova was unquestionably one of the great poets of the 20th century. These exquisite translations convey the subtle beauties and daring associations of a poet whose long life proved poetry's capacity for survival and subversive resistance to tyranny.

Requiem and Poem without a Hero

Requiem and Poem without a Hero PDF Author: Anna Akhmatova
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0804040885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son’s fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones’ fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova’s beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas’s translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas’s stewardship, Akhmatova’s words ring clear as a bell.

A Poem Without a Hero

A Poem Without a Hero PDF Author: Анна Андреевна Ахматова
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Category : Russian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Анна Андреевна Ахматова
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Definitive translations of Akhmatova back in bilingual format.

The Word that Causes Death's Defeat

The Word that Causes Death's Defeat PDF Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103779
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus. Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet’s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova’s poems and how and why they were created.

My Half Century

My Half Century PDF Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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"Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English." "The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously." --Book Jacket.

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai PDF Author: Yehuda Amichai
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520275837
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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"Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul."—Anthony Hecht

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova PDF Author: Анна Андреевна Ахматова
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1076

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Akhmatova was recognised as one of the world's great poets after her death in 1966. Refusing to leave Russia when her work was censored and her name attacked she spoke to and for the soul of her people. There are 800 poems and essays in this edition some of which have not been published in English before.

Heroes and She-roes

Heroes and She-roes PDF Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803729251
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Twenty-one entertaining, thought-provoking poems chronicle the good that people have done in service of others. Bypassing those of mere fame, this striking collection is a celebration of such persons as Gandhi, Rosa Parks, teachers, a thirteen-year-old child-labor crusader, firefighters, Cesar Chavez, a feisty nun, and: . . . the valiant and the brave. Those simple people known by Two simple words: They gave. Each portrait includes an expressive illustration and additional factual material, and an eloquent afterword tells of Mr. Lewis's own childhood hero. This memorable book invites readers to explore the legacy of human generosity which lights the path for tomorrow's heroes.