The Development of Russian Verse explores the Russian verse
tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, showing how certain formal
features are associated with certain genres and, at times, specific
themes. Michael Wachtel's basic thesis is that form is never
neutral: poets can react positively in terms of stylization and
development, or negatively in terms of parody or revision, to the
work of their predecessors, but they cannot ignore it. Keeping
technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of
quotations, Wachtel offers close readings of individual poems of
more than fifty poets. He aims to help English-speaking readers
reconstruct the strong sense of continuity that Russian poets have
always felt, transcending any individual age or ideology.
Ultimately, his 1999 book is an inquiry into the nature of literary
tradition itself, and how it coalesces in a country that has always
taken so much of its identity from its written legacy.
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