Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars
and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was
no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve"
has claims to being the first great poem of the Russian Revolution.
It remains enigmatic, the language elevated, the tone celebratory,
even mystical. Mayakovsky, bringing Revolution into the very
language and form of his poetry, wrote against Blok and the old
forms, answering "The Twelve" with "150,000,000". Trotsky wrote
"Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that
is what broke him." But for Pasternak and others among his
successors, he was a great and unofficial master. In this
collection, Jon Stallworthy and Peter France introduce a wide range
of Blok's poetry into English, retaining as much as possible his
distinctive form and tone. His early poetry is inspired by mystical
experience which did not entirely leave him during the Revolution,
and the Beautiful lady in his work is less a conceit than a
powerful enabler.
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