Selected Poems
Anna Akhmatova author Carol Ann Duffy editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Nov '09
£9.99
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A new edition of the selected poems of Russia's greatest twentieth-century poet, published to celebrate her 120th anniversary.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFY
Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFY
Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Thomas, illustrates her broad scope and brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities.
A genius of Russian poetry * Sunday Times *
Once, when young, she had written the lines which lovers quoted to one another. Later she provided words which thousands of men and women repeated under their breath, as they suffered, feared and waited. * Observer *
The greatest Russian poetess of the twentieth century -- Joseph Brodsky
Her fortitude and independence, the breadth of her compassion and the clarity of her realistic vision erased the line between herself and others; her intensely personal lyrics became the void of her nation's tragedy * New York Times Book Review *
The extraordinary misery of her life and the extraordinary merits of her poems make Anna Akhmatova one of the great literary figures of modern times * Economist *
ISBN: 9780099540878
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 127g
176 pages