Broyde Steven. Osip Mandel'stam and His Age: A Commentary on the Themes of War and Revolution in the Poetry, 1913-1923

Monograph. — First Edition. —Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. — VII, 245 p. — (Harvard Slavic monographs). — ISBN-10 0674644921, ISBN-13 978-0674644922.The increasing availability of Mandel'stam's work in the west has awakened widespread, serious interest in his poetry. Mandel'stam's importance as a major twentieth-century poet hardly needs to be argued at this time, yet for this very reason it is important to furnish a concrete, factual examination of the poems on which this reputation is based. By analyzing in careful detail a number of Mandel'stam's poems written between 1913 and 1923, a crucial period in Russian history and in the poet's career as well, Steven Broyde uncovers Mandel'stam's persistent themes and his characteristic poetic method.ForewordWorld War one
Revolution
Reflection on culture
The Age
A new intervention
An enduring visionNotes
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