L. B. Croft
In the following essay, L. B. Croft critiques From Desire to Desire as a work aimed more at novice admirers of Yevgeny Yevtushenko rather than scholars, suggesting it primarily serves those looking to enhance their literary conversation with his name.
For the specialist, there is patently little point in acquiring [From Desire to Desire]. It is obviously intended for those romantic but uninitiated poetophiles who have somewhere heard of Yevtushenko and seek another name to drop in literary conversation. To this purpose it is well designed. (p. 642)
L. B. Croft, in World Literature Today (copyright 1977 by the University of Oklahoma Press), Vol. 51, No. 4, Autumn, 1977.
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