Aleksandr Blok (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Aleksandr Blok was the best poet in the second wave of Russian Symbolists at the beginning of the twentieth century. His early poems are included in the collections Stikhi o prekrasnoy dame (1904; verses about the beautiful lady) and Ante lucem (1909; before light), which express his adoration of mythical Sophia, in fact his later wife. His exuberance later changed to a more somber mood, the beautiful lady being replaced by a stranger (neznakomka), in Puzyri zemli (1916; earth’s bubbles), Gorod (1916; the city)...
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