The word that causes death's defeat : poems of memory / Anna Akhmatova ; translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Poems. Selections. English
Main Author: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966
Other Authors: Anderson, Nancy K., 1956-
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Russian
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004], ©2004.
Subjects:
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, > 1889-1966 > Translations into English.
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, > 1889-1966.
Genre:
Translations into English.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xiii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Youth and early fame, 1889-1916
  • Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922
  • Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935
  • Terror and the muse, 1936-1941
  • War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953
  • Late fame and final years, 1953-1966
  • Requiem
  • The way of all the earth
  • Poem without a hero
  • Bearing the burden of witness : Requiem
  • Forward into the past : The way of all the earth
  • Rediscovering a lost generation : Poem without a hero
  • Commentary on Poem without a hero.