The increasing availability of Mandel'stam's work in the West has awakened widespread, serious interest in his poetry. Mandel'stam's importance as a major twentieth-century poet hardly needs to be argued at this time, yet for this very reason it is important to furnish a concrete, factual examination of the poems on which this reputation is based. By analyzing in careful detail a number of Mandel'stam's poems written between 1913 and 1923, a crucial period in Russian history and in the poet's career as well, Steven Broyde uncovers Mandel'stam's persistent themes and his characteristic poetic method.
| LoC Classification |
PG3476.M355Z576 1973 |
| Dewey |
891.7/1/3 |
| Nationality |
Russian |
| Cover Price |
$34.95 |
| No. of Pages |
264 |
| Height x Width |
9.8
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Based on the author's thesis, Harvard, 1973.
Mandelstam greeted the war very much a Russian patriot, believing, as did many of his contemporaries, that it signaled the fulfillment of the nation's historical destiny.[107] On October 30, 1914, he delivered a paper, "A Few Words Concerning Civic Poetry," and although it has not survived, it is quite certain that Mandelstam hailed the verbal war effort of his fellow poets, even if he might not have welcomed some of its particular manifestations.[108]
