Poems of Akhmatova : Izbrannye Stikhi

by Kunitz, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780395860038
• ISBN10: 0395860032
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-30
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent biographies attest to a remarkable resurgence of interest in her poetry in this country. Here is the essence of Akhmatova - a landmark selection and translation, including excerpts from "Poem with a Hero."

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(26)
A Note on the Translations	29	(10)
1. Reading Hamlet	39	(2)
2. Pushkin	41	(2)
3. "I Wrung My Hands..."	43	(2)
4. "Heart's Memory of Sun..."	45	(2)
5. "Three Things Enchanted Him..."	47	(2)
6. To the Muse	49	(2)
7. "We're All Drunkards Here..."	51	(2)
8. The Guest	53	(2)
9. To Alexander Blok	55	(2)
10. "How Can You Look at the Neva?..."	57	(2)
11. July 1914	59	(4)
12. "All Has Been Taken Away..."	63	(2)
13. "We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye..."	65	(2)
14. "When in the Throes of Suicide..."	67	(2)
15. "Now Nobody Will Want to Listen to Songs..."	69	(2)
16. "Why Is This Age Worse...?"	71	(2)
17. "Everything is Plundered..."	73	(2)
18. "I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land..."	75	(2)
19. Lot's Wife	77	(2)
20. The Muse	79	(2)
21. The Last Toast	81	(2)
22. Boris Pasternak	83	(4)
23. Voronezh	87	(2)
24. Dante	89	(2)
25. Imitation from the Armenian	91	(2)
26. In Memory of M. B.	93	(2)
27. Cleopatra	95	(2)
28. Willow	97	(2)
29. Requiem	99	(20)
30. In 1940	119	(6)
31. Courage	125	(2)
32. The Return	127	(2)
33. "This Cruel Age Has Deflected Me..."	129	(4)
34. "Your Lynx-Eyes, Asia..."	133	(2)
35. March Elegy	135	(2)
36. Epigram	137	(2)
37. The Death of Sophocles	139	(2)
38. Alexander at Thebes	141	(2)
39. There Are Four of Us	143	(2)
40. From Poem without a Hero	145	(14)
Notes on the Poems	159