The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- 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
Form and Content
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is an enormous work comprising the more than seven hundred original poems that Akhmatova wrote in her lifetime, with translations by Judith Hemschemeyer on the facing pages. Volume 1 includes Akhmatova’s first five books: Vecher (1912; evening), Chetki (1914; rosary), Belaia staia (1917; white flock), Podorozhnik (1921; plantain), and Anno Domini MCMXXI (1922, 1923). Each book was a single composition in itself, thematically and structurally unified, and the translator and editor...
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