Anchoring Mandelstam's works in the midst of his world literature contemporaries and situating him with such Russian poets such as Pushkin, this volume affords Mandelstam a well-deserved place among the great literary figures of the 20th century.
Andrew Kahn is Professor of Russian Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was educated in the USA and UK and has degrees in Classical History and Literature as well as in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. He writes mainly about Russian literature and history of ideas of the eighteenth century and the poetic traditions. He has been visiting professor at Berkeley, Columbia, and the Ecole Normale Superieure, rue d'Ulm, and has given invited lectures at Cambridge, Columbia, University of Colorado (Boulder), Yale University, and Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.