Russian Silver age poetry : texts and contexts / edited and introduced by Sibelan E. S. Forrester and Martha M. F. Kelly ; book design by Ivan Grave.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.), editor, author of introduction, etc.

Kelly, Martha M. F., editor, author of introduction, etc.

Grave, Ivan Platonovich, 1874-1960, book designer.

Series:

Cultural syllabus.

Cultural Syllabus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian poetry.

Russian poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian poetry--20th century--Translations into English.

Russian poetry--19th century--Translations into English.

Modernism (Literature)--Russia.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--Soviet Union.

Russia.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, [Massachusetts] : Academic Studies Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation-many of them translated especially for this volume-as well as critical and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

How To Use This Book

Some Issues in Translating Russian Poetry into English

Several Different Versions of the Same Russian Poem

Acknowledgments

Sources and Permissions

Introduction: Poetry of the Russian Silver Age / Forrester, Sibelan / Kelly, Martha

SECTION I: THE POETS

Biographies and Poetry

Anna Akhmatova

Innokenty Annensky

Nikolai Aseev

Konstantin Balmont

Andrei Bely

Alexander Blok

Valery Bryusov

Sergei Esenin

Zinaida Gippius

Nikolai Gumilyov

Vyacheslav Ivanov

Velimir Khlebnikov

Vladislav Khodasevich

Nikolai Klyuev

Alexei Kruchonykh

Mikhail Kuzmin

Mirra Lokhvitskaya

Osip Mandelstam

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Dmitri Merezhkovsky

Sofia Parnok

Boris Pasternak

Igor Severyanin

Maria Shkapskaya

Fyodor Sologub

Vladimir Solovyov

Marina Tsvetaeva

Maximilian Voloshin

Selected Bibliography of Poetry Translations

SECTION II: BEYOND POETRY

Introduction

Essays

From Poetry as Enchantment (1915) / Balmont, Konstantin

Symbolism and Contemporary Russian Art (1908) / Bely, Andrei

Keys to the Mysteries (1904) / Bryusov, Valery

A Holy Sacrifice (1905) / Bryusov, Valery

Symbolism's Legacy and Acmeism (1913) / Gumilyov, Nikolai

Nietzsche and Dionysus (1904) / Ivanov, Vyacheslav

The Precepts of Symbolism (1910) / Ivanov, Vyacheslav

Thoughts on Symbolism (1912) / Ivanov, Vyacheslav

The Morning of Acmeism (1913) / Mandelstam, Osip

The Word and Culture (1921) / Mandelstam, Osip

From The Apocalypse of Our Times (1917) / Rozanov, Vasily

Poets' Demons (1907) / Sologub, Fyodor

Criticism

Innokenty Annensky (1963) / Akhmatova, Anna

From "On Contemporary Lyrism" (1909) / Annensky, Innokenty

In Memory of Vrubel (1916) / Blok, Alexander

Chertova kukla (The Devil's Doll): A Novel by Z. N. Gippius (1911) / Chukovsky, Kornei

Reviews of Works by Blok, Klyuev, Balmont, and Others (1912) / Gumilyov, Nikolai

Review of Akhmatova's Beads (1914) / Gumilyov, Nikolai

Foreword to Evening by Anna Akhmatova (1912) / Kuzmin, Mikhail

Review of Igor Severyanin's The Thunder- Seething Goblet (1913) / Mandelstam, Osip

On Contemporary Poetry: Almanac of the Muses (1916) / Mandelstam, Osip

V. V. Khlebnikov (1922) Obituary note / Mayakovsky, Vladimir

In Quest of a Path for Art (1913) / Parnok, Sofia

On Symbolists and Decadents (1901) (from Religiia i kul'tura, St. Petersburg) / Rozanov, Vasily

Reviews of Russian Symbolists (1894) / Solovyov, Vladimir

Downpour of Light: Poetry of Eternal Courage (1922) / Tsvetaeva, Marina

The Horoscope of Cherubina de Gabriak (1909) / Voloshin, Maximilian

Memoirs

Reminiscences of Alexander Blok (1955) / Akhmatova, Anna

From "Osip Mandelstam" (1964) / Akhmatova, Anna

Bryusov (1925) (excerpt from the book Living Faces) / Gippius, Zinaida

The End of Renata (1928) / Khodasevich, Vladislav

From The One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer (1933) / Livshitz, Benedikt

From On the Banks of the Neva (1967) / Odoevtseva, Irina

On Vladimir Mayakovsky (1931) (from Safe Conduct) / Pasternak, Boris

From a review of Kuzmin's Alexandrian Songs (1906) / Voloshin, Maximilian

Other Prose Works

Letter to Alexander Blok (1907) / Annensky, Innokenty

Letter to Maximilian Voloshin (1909) / Annensky, Innokenty

Futurist Manifestos (1912, 1913)

Letters to Vyacheslav Ivanov (1909) / Mandelstam, Osip

Quote about the Stray Dog cabaret (no date) / Shklovsky, Viktor

The Demonic Woman (1913) / Tèffi, Nadezhda

Thematic Index

Index of Poem Titles and First Lines (Russian)

Index of Poem Titles and First Lines (English)

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 12, 2015).

ISBN:

1-61811-363-1

OCLC:

921986937