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A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.

Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was “beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was ...

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Overview

A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.

Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was “beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers’ Union—condemned as “half nun, half harlot.” Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia’s most beloved poets.

Here are poems from all her major works—including the magnificent “Requiem” commemorating the victims of Stalin’s terror—and some that have been newly translated for this edition.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307264244
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/16/2006
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 355,744
  • Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
  • Product dimensions: 4.36 (w) x 6.48 (h) x 0.73 (d)

Meet the Author

Anna Akhmatova was born Anna Gorenko in 1888 and died in 1966. A popular poet of the Acmeist school, she took a pseudonym when her upper-class father objected to her "decadent" choice of career. She was married to the Acmeist poet Gumilev from 1910 until 1918, and spent time in Paris, where she posed nude for Modigliani. After the Revolution, Akhmatova remained silent for two decades. Her ex-husband was executed in 1921, their son was imprisoned for sixteen years, and her third husband died in a Siberian prison camp. She began publishing again at the outbreak of World War II, and her writings regained popularity despite being harshly denounced by the Soviet regime in 1946 and 1957 for "bourgeois decadence." Ejected from the Writers' Union in 1946, she was made its president two years before her death in 1966. Her greatest poem, "Requiem," gives voice to the suffering of those who, like the poet, spent many years waiting outside prison walls for word of their sons, husbands, or lovers. It was not published in its entirety in Russia until 1987.

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

Table of Contents

From evening
'The pillow hot ...' 15
Reading Hamlet 16
Evening room 17
'I have written down the words 18
'I share my room ...' 19
'Memory of sun seeps from the heart ...' 20
'The door is half open ...' 21
'High in the sky ...' 22
Song of the last meeting 23
Love 24
'He loved three things alone ...' 25
Imitation of Annensky 26
'I came here in idleness ...' 27
White night 28
Legend on an unfinished portrait 29
From Rosary
'I have come to take your place, sister ...' 33
'It goes on without end ...' 35
'We're all drunkards here ...' 36
A ride 37
'Nobody came to meet me ...' 38
'So many requests ...' 39
The voice of memory 40
8 November 1913 41
'Blue heaven, but the high ...' 42
'Do you forgive me ...' 44
The guest 45
'I won't beg for your love ...' 46
'I came to him as a guest ...' 47
By the seashore 49
From White flock
'Empty white Christmastide ...' 65
Loneliness 66
'How can you look at the Neva ...' 67
'The road is black ...' 68
Flight 69
'I don't know if you're alive or dead ...' 71
'There is a frontier-line ...' 72
'Freshness of words ...' 73
'Under an empty dwelling's frozen roof ...' 74
'The churchyard's quiet ...' 75
'Neither by cart nor boat ...' 76
'Lying in me ...' 77
Statue in Tsarskoye Selo 78
'O there are words ...' 79
From Plantain
'Fame is like smoke ...' 83
'I shouldn't be dreaming ...' 84
'Now farewell, capital ...' 85
'I hear the oriole's always grieving voice ...' 87
'Now no-one will be listening to songs ...' 88
'The cuckoo I asked ...' 89
'Why is our century worse than any other? ...' 90
From Anno Domini
'You're like a strange ...' 93
'Everything is looted ...' 94
'Oh, life without ...' 95
'They wiped your slate ...' 96
Bezhetsk 97
'To earthly solace ...' 98
'I'm not of those who left ...' 99
'Blows the swan wind ...' 100
'To fall ill as one should ...' 101
'Behind the lake ...' 102
Rachel 103
Lot's wife 105
From Reed
Muse 109
To an artist 110
The last toast 111
'Dust smells of a sun-ray ...' 112
'Some gaze into tender faces ...' 113
Boris Pasternak 114
Voronezh 116
'Imitation from the Armenian ...' 117
Dante 118
Cleopatra 119
Willow 120
In memory of Mikhail Bulgakov 121
'When a man dies ...' 122
'Not the lyre of a lover ...' 122
Way of all the Earth 123
From The seventh book
In 1940 133
'Some walk in a straight line ...' 138
'No matter that death ...' 139
Courage 140
'And you, my friends ...' 141
'That's how I am ...' 142
Three autumns 144
'The souls of those I love ...' 146
'The fifth act of the drama ...' 147
'It is your lynx eyes, Asia ...' 148
In dream 149
'Once more an autumn ...' 150
The glass doorbell 151
'And that heart ...' 152
'Let any, who will, still bask in the south ...' 154
Music 155
From Northern elegies : the first 156
From Northern elegies : the fifth 159
From Northern elegies : the sixth 161
Seaside sonnet 163
Fragment 164
Summer garden 165
'In black memory ...' 166
'Could Beatrice write ...' 167
Death of a poet 168
The death of Sophocles 169
Alexander at Thebes 170
Native soil 171
There are four of us 172
'If all who have begged help ...' 173
Last rose 174
'Reviled and acclaimed ...' 175
'This land ...' 176
'It is no wonder ...' 177
'What's war? what's plague? ...' 178
In memory of V. C. Sreznevskaya 179
Christmastime (24 December) 180
'You will hear thunder and remember me ...' 181
Requiem 183
Poem without a hero 195

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