Requiem (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anna Andreyevna Gorenko
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Prisons, Nature, Religion, Poetry or poets, Christianity, Death or dying, Youth, Captivity, Russia or Russian people, Persecution
Critical Evaluation:
Anna Akhmatova was a prominent voice in Russian poetry of the twentieth century for more than fifty years. When she died in 1966, she was hailed as one of the eminent poets of her country, ranked with Aleksandr Blok, Boris Pasternak, and Osip Mandelstam. Her several collections attest the high quality of her craft. She drew attention to her poetry at the very start of her career, participating in a short-lived but eclectic group of poets called the Acmeists in the second decade of the twentieth century. She then struck her own path, and, although she was...
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