Art in the Light of Conscience (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marina Tsvetayeva
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Essays and literary criticism
- Principal Characters: Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Osip Mandelstam
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Values, Exile or expatriates, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Genius, Individuality, Immigration or emigration, Creative process, Consciousness, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union, Emigration
The generation of Russian poets that began to reach maturity in the 1920’s is significant for a number of reasons. In its own right, their work extends and renews the poetic tradition of their native country, bringing to it new codes of verbal facility and emotional intensity. In translation, however, particularly during the Cold War period, the reception and perception of what this poetry represented, in terms of cultural value and self-expressive freedom, had a resonant impact on European and American poetry, particularly on those poets to whom such terms were in need of...
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