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.
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