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poetry, politics, and identity in a revolutionary age
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Rightly appreciated as a 'poet's poet', Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is 'as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce's 'Ulysses' or Eliot's 'Waste Land.' Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam's poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam's writings are the subject of this text, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movements, political ideology, and aesthetics of his time. The importance of the work also lies in showing how literature, no less than history and philosophy, enables readers to confront the huge upheaval in outlook can demand of us.
The political culture of a poet -- Revolutionary lyric -- The 'Slate Ode' -- 'Verses on Russian Poetry' -- 'Octaves' -- Painting -- Moving pictures -- Objects -- Love's body -- From mortal to immortal love -- The Voronezh poems (1934-7) and the geometry of exile -- Into the fourth dimension.
This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.