Russian Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
For Russians, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says, “Poetry is born from the torment of the soul.” Only a part of the multicultural, multilingual Soviet Union, Russia is still a vast land, bordered on the north and south by the Baltic and the Black Seas, on the west by the Carpathian Mountains, and on the east by the mighty Volga River. In the thousand-year history of Russian literature, no natural barrier has preserved the Russian people from the agony of invasion, and Russian poetry has become unbreakably forged to their historical suffering.
The Poetry of...
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