Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich
Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich ( 1891 – ?1938 ),Russian poet, born into the family of a Jewish leather merchant in Warsaw and brought up in St Petersburg. He spent most of 1907 – 10 in western Europe, particularly Paris, and then studied at St Petersburg University. His first poems appeared in 1910 . In 1911 he joined the Acmeist ‘Guild of Poets’ with Akhmatova and Gumilev , and the poems of his first collection, Stone ( 1913 ), are marked by Acmeist brevity and clarity. He met Nadezhda Yakovlevna Khazina (b. 1899 ) in Kiev in 1919 and married her in 1922 . His second collection, Tristia ( 1922 ), confirmed his status while considerably widening his range. During the 1920s Mandelstam came under increasing attack for being ‘out of step’ with the new Soviet age, and his ruminations on the subject produced such important poems as ‘The Age’ and ‘The Slate Ode’. His third volume,...
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