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The word that causes death's defeat : poems of memory / Anna Akhmatova ; translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966--Translations into English.
- Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna.
- Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anna Akhmatova, one of 20th-century Russia's greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Russian authorities because of her desire to maintain the nation's pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage. This title is a collection of her poems, providing an insight into Russian life at a time of great political change.
- Contents:
- Youth and early fame, 1889-1916
- Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922
- Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935
- Terror and the muse, 1936-1941
- War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953
- Late fame and final years, 1953-1966
- Requiem
- The way of all the earth
- Poem without a hero
- Bearing the burden of witness : Requiem
- Forward into the past : The way of all the earth
- Rediscovering a lost generation : Poem without a hero
- Commentary on Poem without a hero.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p.315-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-12705-7
- OCLC:
- 191944571
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