Selected Poems - Softcover

Blok, Aleksandr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198720149 ISBN 13: 9780198720140

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1968

Synopsis

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.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

Review

About These Poems
After The Blizzard
August
Autumn
Death Of A Poet
Definition Of Creativity
False Alarm
Foul Ways In Spring
Fresco Come To Life
From Superstition
The Garden Of Gethsemane
Gathering Storm
Hamlet
Hayricks
Here Will Be Everything; All I Have Known
Hops
I Remember A Dirty Yard
If I Had Known That This Is What Happens
Improvisation
In Everything I Want To Reach
In Holy Week
It Has All Been Fulfilled
It's February. Weeping, Take Ink
January 1919
July
Lily Of The Valley
Magdalene
Maladies Of The Earth
Marburg
Mirror
Mutiny At Sea
My Beauty, All Your Symmetry
My Friend, You Ask Who Gives The Order
My Sister, Life, Is Today Overflowing
Night Violet
No One Will Be In The House
Nobel Prize
Oars Crossed
The Old Park
Pine Trees
Putting Out To Sea
Rain
Slanting Pictures, Streaming In
The Sleepy Garden Scatters Beetles
Snow Is Falling
Sparrnow Hills
Spring
Spring
Spring Again
Spring Rain
Steppe
Storm, Instantaneous Forever
Swifts
Theme
Theme And Variations
Thus They Begin. At Two They Rush
To A Friend
To Anna Akhmatova
The Urals For The First Time
Variation 3
Venice
Wedding
The Weeping Garden
When The Weather Clears
While We Are Climbing In The Caucasus
The Wind
The Wind
Winter Approaches
Winter Night
Winter Sky
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0198720149
• ISBN 13: 9780198720140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196