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Russian Poets - (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Peter Washington (Hardcover)

Russian Poets - (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by  Peter Washington (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This volume gathers together some of the most powerful poems from the greatest Russian poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Arranged by theme and presented in the best available translations, this collection offers an ideal introduction to the mastery of Russian poetry.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>Arranged 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Peter Washington </b>is the editor of many Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthologies, including <i>Love Poems, Erotic Poems, Friendship Poems, </i>and <i>Poems of Mourning.</i>

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