The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Freedom, History, Communism or communists, Revolutionaries, Love or romance, Suicide, Psychology or psychologists, Religion, Poetry or poets, Emotions, Oppression, War, Nationalism, Duty, Death or dying, World War I, Fate or fatalism, Heroes or heroism, Censorship, Time, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Nostalgia
This edition of Anna Akhmatova’s poetry represents a major achievement: It makes available to the English-language reader for the first time the entire range of Akhmatova’s poetic creation. Translations of Akhmatova’s work have appeared previously, but this collection, with some seven hundred poems, dwarfs those earlier collections both in scope and in breadth. The editor, Roberta Reeder, and the translator, Judith Hemschemeyer, not only have included all the works that appeared in the poetry collections published during Akhmatova’s lifetime but also have gathered and printed a...
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