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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460912703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-61811-363-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Collana: Cultural Syllabus
• Disciplina: 891.71409
• Soggetti: Russian poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Russian poetry - 19th century - History and criticism; Russian poetry - 20th century; Russian poetry - 19th century; Modernism (Literature) - Russia; Modernism (Literature) - Soviet Union; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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)
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.