{"product_id":"russian-poets-isbn-9780307269744","title":"Russian Poets","description":"Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here is the work of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, and Joseph Brodsky, among many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArranged by theme—love, mortality, art, and the enduring mystery of Mother Russia herself—and presented in the best available translations, these poems will serve as both an introduction to the mastery of Russian poetry and a wide-ranging selection to be returned to again and again.Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MUSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK A Definition of Poetry \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Echo \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET To the Muse \u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK Poetry \u003cbr\u003eVLADISLAV KHODASEVICH Stanzas \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN The Poet \u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK ‘Thus they begin’ \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘Poems grow’ \u003cbr\u003eSERGEI ESENIN ‘I am the last village-poet’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Exegi Monumentum\u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA The Muse €\u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK For Anna Akhmatova \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK To Anna Akhmatova \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA For Alexander Blok \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM On Akhmatova \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV\u003cbr\u003e‘The Dostoyology of racing clouds!’ \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV\u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of A. I. O[doevsk]y \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN To a Poet\u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI NEKRASOV From Princess Volkhonskaya \u003cbr\u003eJOSEPH BRODSKY To Urania\u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Silentium! \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM Silentium \u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI GUMILEV I and You \u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI NEKRASOV ‘Happy that easy-tempered bard I call’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN ‘Eyes open wide, the poet weaves’ \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV ‘Nay, in a poet put no trust’ \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA From The Poet \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK To the Muse \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘For my poems’ \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV The Poet\u003cbr\u003eE. A. BARATYNSKY The Muse \u003cbr\u003eKONSTANTIN BATYUSHKOV To My Friends\u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM ‘Air sucked dry, bread turning to mould’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNATIVE LAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV Native Land \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV A Prophecy \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN The Prophet \u003cbr\u003eJOSEPH BRODSKY From A Part of Speech \u003cbr\u003ePETER VYAZEMSKY The Russian God \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK Russia \u003cbr\u003eALEXEY TOLSTOY The Convicts\u003cbr\u003eALEXEY TOLSTOY ‘Land of mine, where I was bred’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Message to Siberia \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV The Beggar \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV Russia and Me \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘Longing for the motherland’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK The Kite \u003cbr\u003eANDREI VOSNESENSKY Mother \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV ‘These poor hamlets, humbly faring’ \u003cbr\u003eANDREI BELY Russia\u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘As you fought for your fatherland’ \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV ‘Farewell to Russia’s unwashed features’ \u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK ‘We are few’ \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV ‘Moscow’s a crazed old skull’ \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA From Northern Elegies \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Russia \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM Petersburg Stanzas\u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI NEKRASOV ‘The capitals are rocked with thunder’\u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK From Retribution Book 2, I \u0026amp; IV \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV The Moscow of the Future\u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘Above the church tower there are clouds of blue’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBLACK EARTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM Black Earth\u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA Native Soil \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘Some forebear of mine was a violinist’ \u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK Spring \u003cbr\u003eIVAN BUNIN Russian Spring\u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘Skies again are deep and bare’ \u003cbr\u003eVLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY The Problem of Spring\u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Spring Waters \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Spring Storm \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV First Leaf \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA ‘The lime-trees by the open door’ \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV ‘Alive with glad tidings’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN ‘Day’s rain is done’ \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA Garden \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA Garden \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK Illusion \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK Autumn Day\u003cbr\u003eINNOKENTI ANNENSKY Poppies \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Autumn \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA Bezhetsk \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Winter Morning\u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Fountain at Tsarskoye Selo \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM ‘The pear and the cherry blossom’\u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA Elder\u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘I have come to you to greet you’ \u003cbr\u003eVLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY Night \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV At the Imperial Village \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA Statue in Tsarskoye Selo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRA¨ UMEREI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK Tra¨umerei \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘Expect to-morrow to be fair’ \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET Never\u003cbr\u003eALEXEY TOLSTOY At the Ball \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV The Dream €\u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV The Opium Smoker \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA The Window \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM Seashell \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET Signs \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM ‘Sleeplessness’ \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA From Insomnia \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK The Stranger \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV Beast ò Number \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Wave and Thought \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘Up in the hay one evening, darkling’ \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Italian Villa \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN To the Fountain of the Palace of Bakhchisarai \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV The Fountain \u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK In the Wood\u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV The Sail \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Sea Dream \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN To Vyazemsky \u003cbr\u003eKONSTANTIN BALMONT Drowned \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN To the Sea \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV You My Sea Wave \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK The Sailor \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV ‘The shining shower dripping from the oar’\u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN Arion \u003cbr\u003eJOSEPH BRODSKY North Baltic \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Sea and Rock \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV On a Still Night \u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI GUMILEV The Captains \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘All, all that once was mine is mine forever’ \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV Hope \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON LOVE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOSEPH BRODSKY On Love \u003cbr\u003eALEXEY TOLSTOY ‘My little almond tree’ \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV The Song of One Come to Confusion \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV The Crag\u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA ‘You’re like a strange and very strict diet’\u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA The White Bird \u003cbr\u003eBORIS PASTERNAK What We Had \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR SOLOGUB ‘The stifling day was harsh and hot’ \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV A Foppish Proposal \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘I’ve dissolved for you, in that glass over there’ \u003cbr\u003eANDREI VOZNESENSKY Her Shoes \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘When she her crimson lips uncloses’ \u003cbr\u003eANDREI VOSNESENSKY Dead Still \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET ‘Whispering’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN To Olga Masson\u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN The Beauty \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK ‘She came in from the frost’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXEI KOLTSOV The Nightingale \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA A Ride \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN K*** \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Last Love \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK Snow Wine \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM Birth of the Smile \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET Snake \u003cbr\u003eANNA AKHMATOVA ‘I share my room’ \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA House \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHAT IS THE USE OF TIME?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVLADISLAV KHODASEVICH ‘What is the use of time and rhyme?’ \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET Swallows\u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN To –– \u003cbr\u003eALEXEY TOLSTOY ‘Do you remember, Mary’ \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER BLOK Do You Remember \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN ‘As soon as roses fade’ \u003cbr\u003eANDREI BELY Euthanasia \u003cbr\u003eVASILY ZHUKOVSKY Song \u003cbr\u003eMIKHAIL LERMONTOV Testament \u003cbr\u003ePETER VYAZEMSKY ‘I have outlived most things and people round me’ \u003cbr\u003eOSIP MANDELSTAM Lost in the Sky \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV On His Brother’s Death \u003cbr\u003eALEXEY TOLSTOY ‘Outside it is blowing and raining’\u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV The Shadow \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV Riverscape \u003cbr\u003eSERGEI ESENIN Last Lines \u003cbr\u003eVELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV ‘Nations, years and every creature’\u003cbr\u003eYAKOV POLONSKY The Swan \u003cbr\u003eFYODOR TYUTCHEV The Past \u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN ‘Do not sing to me again’ \u003cbr\u003eANDREI VOSNESENSKY Ballad of the Full Stop \u003cbr\u003eNIKOLAI ZABOLOTSKY Goodbye to Friends \u003cbr\u003eAFANASY FET By the Fireside \u003cbr\u003eMARINA TSVETAYEVA ‘Make merry, my soul, drink and eat!’ \u003cbr\u003eINNOKENTI ANNENSKY Black Spring \u003cbr\u003eVALERY BRYUSOV Orpheus and Eurydice \u003cbr\u003eJOSEPH BRODSKY In Memoriam\u003cbr\u003eALEXANDER PUSHKIN May 26, 1828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Poets\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003ePeter Washington \u003c\/b\u003eis the editor of many Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eLove Poems, Erotic Poems, Friendship Poems, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePoems of Mourning.\u003c\/i\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis selection of Russian verse is not comprehensive—how could it be, given the richness and abundance of material?—but in addition to well-known figures I have tried to include some less celebrated. Acknowledgments at the back of the book will suggest further reading for those in search of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus is on lyrics, always difficult to translate, especially when so allusive and intertextual. My choice of poets beyond the famous few has been limited by availability: many have been translated little or not at all, others badly. The poems must also read well in English, rarely the case with verse translations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor convenience, the text is divided into six sections, but part titles are to be taken as starting points, not limits. Russian poets constantly reflect on their art, so it seems appropriate to begin with the Muse. Their other great topic is Russia herself, explored in parts two and three. Part four presents the inner world, parts five and six traditional themes of love and mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Peter Washington","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301821698277,"sku":"NP9780307269744","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307269744.jpg?v=1767735995","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/russian-poets-isbn-9780307269744","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}