Tristia (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Osip Mandelstam
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, Gender roles, Poetry or poets, Fear, Greek or Roman times, Joy or sorrow
Critical Evaluation:
Osip Mandelstam’s second collection of verses, Tristia, was published in 1922, under unusual and intriguing circumstances. The manuscript was taken to Berlin, and the poems were arranged by a fellow poet, Mikhail Kuzmin, who also gave it the title, after one of the best poems in the collection. Mandelstam borrowed the title itself from Ovid’s work by the same name. Mandelstam was not satisfied, however, with the way the publication was handled. When he published the second edition in 1923, he changed the title to Vtoraia kniga (second...
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