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New edition of the selected poems of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poet, translated by D.M. Thomas.

Way of All the Earth contains selected poems written by Anna Akhmatova, one of Russiäs greatest poets whose works embody the complexities of her era. Intricately observed and unwavering in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems represent one of the twentieth century¿s most powerful voices.

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...

Expressing the collective grief for the thousands vanished under Josef Stalin's regime, "Requiem" chronicles Akhmatova's seventeen-month wait for news of her imprisoned son's fate, while "Poem without a Hero" chronicles the transformation of vibrant St. Petersburg into oppressive Leningrad and the pain of those left behind.

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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was part of that magnificent and tragic generation of Russian artists which came to first maturity before 1917, and which then had to come to terms with official discouragement and often persecution. You Will Hear Thunder brings together for the first time all D.M. Thomas's translations of her poems.

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Through much of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova's poetry gave voice to the deepest yearnings and struggles of the Russian people. Born in 1889, she survived these upheavals, refusing to abandon either Russia or her craft despite vicious attacks on her name and censorship of her work. When committing poems to paper threatened to cause her arrest, a few close friends faithfully memorised her lines. By the time she died in 1966, Anna Akhmat...

The poet Anna Akhmatova was born Anna Gorenko in Odessa, in the Ukraine, in 1889, she later changed her name to Akhmtova. In 1910 she married the important Russian poet and theorist Nikolai Gumilyov. Shortly afterwards Akhmatova began publishing her own poetry, together with Gumilyov, she became a central figure in the Acmeist movement. Acmeism -- which had its parallels in the writings of T. E. Hulme in England and the development of Imagism ...

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A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her "eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was "beautiful clarity”—in her de...

Definitive translations of Akhmatova back in bilingual format.

This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero.

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The definitve collection of Anna Akhmatova in English translation.

James E. Falen is professor emeritus of Russian at the University of Tennessee. He has translated Alexander Pushkin¿s novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, as well as Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works. Kevin M. F. Platt teaches Russian and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania and is the coeditor of Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda.

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...

Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova's work-from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the Stalinist purges-has been newly translated by the American poet Lyn Coffin. In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful in reproducing the directness and striking effects...

The Guest from the Future is a selection of poetry by one of the Norton college department's most redoubtable editors, Professor Jon Stallworthy of Oxford University. It represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of "redress".Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors: the poet Anna Akhmatova, the painter Francoise Gilot, Picasso's lover, a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad, and a woman who escaped war...