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Nancy K. Anderson is an independent scholar. She is a highly regarded translator of Russian poetry, including Yale University Press's translation of Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies, and has taught courses in Russian, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky at Yale University.
Biographical and historical background | |
Youth and early fame, 1889-1916 | p. 3 |
Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922 | p. 23 |
Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935 | p. 44 |
Terror and the muse, 1936-1941 | p. 68 |
War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 | p. 92 |
Late fame and final years, 1953-1966 | p. 115 |
The poems | |
Requiem | p. 135 |
The way of all the earth | p. 145 |
Poem without a hero | p. 148 |
Critical essays | |
Bearing the burden of witness : requiem | p. 181 |
Forward into the past : the way of all the earth | p. 194 |
Rediscovering a lost generation : poem without a Hero | p. 203 |
Commentary | |
Commentary on Poem without a hero | p. 235 |
An early version of Poem without a hero (Tashkent 1942) | p. 267 |
Poem without a hero : excerpts from Akhmatova's notebooks | p. 280 |
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