Armenian Poems (Primary Sources, Historical Collections)
by Alice Stone Blackwell
Again, the Poplars Spread Their Bitter Scent
by Adolf Pavlovich Shvedchikov
The White Island (Carnegie Mellon Poetry in Translation)
by Richard Harteis and William Meredith
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and - most important - poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of the Russian Revolution and the emerging Soviet State, Mayakovsky was championed by Stalin after his death and enshrined as a quasi-official Soviet poet, a position that led to undeserved neglect among Western literary scholars even as his influence on...
Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
by Alexander Vvedensky
Persistent Forms (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics)
Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized. Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the tradition of Historical Poetics, pioneered by Alexander Veselovsky (1838–1906) and developed in various f...
По эту сторону - Po etu storonu
by Victor Fet