Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Hudson River Editions) - Osip Mandelstam, W.S. Merwin, Clarence Brown, Osip Mandelʹshtam • BookLikes (ISBN:0025794019)

Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (Hudson River Editions)

by: W.S. Merwin (author) Clarence Brown (author) Osip Mandelstam (author) Osip Mandelʹshtam (author)

Format: board book

ISBN: 9780025794016 (0025794019)

Publish date: August 30th 1989

Publisher: Scribner

Pages no: 128

Edition language: English

Category:

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

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Judy Croome: Author on the Prowl rated it

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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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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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