Osip Mandelstam: 50 Poems - Osip Mandelstam, Bernard Meares, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam • BookLikes (ISBN:0892550066)

Osip Mandelstam: 50 Poems

by: Joseph Brodsky (author) Osip Mandelstam (author) Osip Mandelstam (author) Bernard Meares (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780892550067 (0892550066)

Publish date: April 17th 2007

Publisher: Persea

Pages no: 130

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Literature, Cultural, Russia, Russian Literature, Poetry

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Judy Croome: Author on the Prowl rated it

8 years ago

http://judycroome.booklikes.com Judy Croome: Author on the Prowl 0.0 Book Review: The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

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Some brilliant poems (#223; #344;#351;#388 to name a few), but overall I couldn't connect with the poet's voice on any deep level. Perhaps the dense classical allusions, which forced me to rack my brain for my long ago Classical Culture studies, stopped me from being drawn into this volume.

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Leopard rated it

10 years ago

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text Poetry by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam in the eyes of the NKVD The people need poetry that will be their own secret to keep them awake forever, and bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was born in Warsaw to a wealthy Jewish family that was sufficiently well connected t...

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