Silver Age of Russian Culture (An Anthology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088233171X ISBN 13: 9780882331713

Publisher: Ardis, 1975

Synopsis

COMPLETE CONTENTS

CRITICISM
Dmitry Merezhkovsky - On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Russian Literature (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)
Vasily Rozanov - On Symbolists And Decadents (Joel Stern trnsl.)
Konstantin Balmont - Elementary Words On Symbolist Poetry (excerpts) (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)
Valery Bryusov - K.D. Balmont, LET'S BE LIKE THE SUN, A BOOK OF SYMBOLS (Rodney Patterson trnsl.)
Vyacheslav Ivanov - Thoughts On Symbolism (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)
Zinaida Gippius - Peredonov's Little Tear (What Sologub Doesn't Know) (Sharon Leiter trnsl.)
Osip Mandelstam - The Morning Of Acmeism (Clarence Brown trnsl.)
Robert T. Whittaker, Jr. - Nikolai Gumilev And Acmeist Critcism
Nikolay S. Gumilev - Symbolism's Legacy & Acmeism (Robert T. Whittaker, Jr. trnsl.)
Nikolay S. Gumilev - Review of Akhmatova's BEADS (Robert T. Whittaker, Jr. trnsl.)
Nikolay S. Gumilev - Review of Mandelstam's STONE (Robert T. Whittaker, Jr. trnsl.)
Victor Zhirmunsky - Two Tendencies Of Contemporary Lyric Poetry (John Glad trnsl.)
Osip Mandelstam - Storm And Stress (Clarence Brown trnsl.)

POETRY
Alexander Blok:
Nightingale Garden (Rodney Patterson trnsl.)
The Unknown Lady (George M. Young, Jr. trnsl.)
"Today, I Don't Remember What Happened Yesterday" (Barbara Heldt Monter trnsl.)
"I Pass Away This Life Of Mine" (Gary Kern trnsl.)
For Anna Akhmatova (Barbara Heldt Monter trnsl.)
"How Burdensome To Walk Among The People" (Gary Kern trnsl.)
"From Sunset She Appeared" (Gary Kern trnsl.)
The Twelve (Arthur Clifford trnsl.)
The Twelve (Natasha Templeton trnsl.)

Andrey Bely:
To Friends (Rodney Patterson trnsl.)

Valery Bryusov:
A Sonnet To Form (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Konstantin Balmont:
She Rests
The Feast
Portraits
Sonnets Of The Sun
The Birth Of Music
The Reed Pipe
The Palace
Through The Ages
Anchorite
Translucence
The Anchorite
Sound Of Sounds
Beneath A Lunar Sign
Sparks Of Mysteries
What Has Happened To Me
The Sunbeam
The Honey Of The Ages (all Rodney Patterson trnsl.)

Vladimir S. Soloviev:
"Dearest friend, do you not see" (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)
Three Meetings (Ralph Koprince trsnl.)

Vyacheslav Ivanov:
Winter Sonnets
Italian Sonnets (both by Emery E. George trnsl.)

Innokenty Annensky:
Poems From A Cypress Chest (R.H. Morrison trnsl.)

Osip Mandelstam:
Tristia (Bruce McClelland, trnsl.)
Hagia Sophia (Struven Fehsenfeld trnsl.)
Notre Dame (Struven Fehsenfeld trnsl.)
"Given my body - how shall I use it?" (Jane Gary Harris trnsl.)
"Orioles In The Trees, and the length of vowels" (Jane Gary Harris trnsl.)
Insomnia (Jane Gary Harris trnsl.)
"I was washing outside in the darkness"(W.S. Merwin & Clarence Brown)
The Age (Struven Fehsenfeld trnsl.)
January 1, 1924 (Jane Gary Harris trnsl.)

Anna Akhmatova:
A Poem Without A Hero (Carl R. Proffer & Assya Humesky trsnl.)
The Guest (Carl R. Proffer trsnl.)
A New Year's Ballad (Carl R. Proffer trsnl.)
"I have come to take your place, sister" (Barbara Heldt Monter trnsl.)
Delusion II
In Tsarskoe Selo III
"My dreams could frequent you more rarely"
"The incense of world and country"
"The imortelles are dry and pink. The clouds"
"I know that you are my reward"
"All things were pledge to me of him"
In Memoriam, July 19, 1914
"Blessing of the Lord, the morning's beam"
"The river dawdles, valley waters gathering"
"Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed"
"To fall sick now, delirium blazing, what fun-"
"Here's the shore, then, of the northern ocean"
"It is fine here: all rustle and creak"
In A White Night
In The Wood
"There's the flag, on the customhouse flashing"
"The evening's feverish, the mornings drooping"
"Hark, kind wanderer, though distant"
For V.K. Shileiko
Love (all Walter Arndt trnsl.)

Nikolay S. Gumilev:
Memory (Jamie Fuller trnsl.)
The Sixth Sense (Carl R. Proffer trsnl.)
A Baby Elephant (Carl R. Proffer trsnl.)
The Streetcar Gone Astray (Carl R. Proffer trsnl.)

PROSE
Fyodor Sologub:
The Poison Garden (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Andrey Bely:
Adam (Charlotte Douglas trnsl.)

Valery Bryusov:
The Republic Of The Southern Cross (Pierre Hart trnsl.)
Now When I Have Awakened (The Notes Of A Psychopath) (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Boris Sadovskoy:
Lamia (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Zinaida Gippius:
He Has Descended (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Pavel Nilus:
Summer Heat (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal:
Thirty-Three Abominations (Samuel Cioran trnsl.)

Nikolai Evreinov:
The Theater Of The Soul (Christopher Collins trsnl.)

ARTICLES
Denis Mickiewicz - Apollo and Modernist Poetics
John E. Bowlt - The World Of Art

APPENDIX - RUSSIAN TEXTS
Alexander Blok - Dvenadtsat (The Twelve)
Anna Akhmatova - Poema bez geroia (Poem Without A Hero)
Osip Mandelstam - Tristia, Solominka, V Peterburge my soidemsia snova

Edition details

• Publisher: Ardis
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088233171X
• ISBN 13: 9780882331713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 421
• Editor: Ellendea Proffer