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Modernist Archaist offers a comprehensive English-language selection of Osip Mandelstam s poetry, edited by Russian scholar Kevin M. F. Platt, who also contributes an illuminating essay. New translations by notable contemporary poets combined with an exceptional selection of previous translations are representative of the most up-to-date interpretation of Mandelstam s work.
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), one of the most significant poets of twentieth-century Russian literature, also...

Osip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds--a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With Stolen Air, Christian Wiman, editor of POETRY, America's oldest and most prestigious magazine of verse, offers a new selection and translation of Mandelstam's poetry--from his hard-edged and highly formal early poems to his almost savagely musical later works--for a new generation to be...

Osip Mandel'shtam - genial'nyj russkij pojet, obladavshij unikal'nym chuvstvom jazyka, pervenstvo kotorogo sredi pojetov priznavala Anna Ahmatova; avtor izyskannoj prozy, perevodchik. Vot uzhe chetvert' veka, kak ja, meshaja vazhnoe s pustjakami, naplyvaju na russkuju pojeziju, no vskore stihi moi sol'jutsja s nej, koe-chto izmeniv v ee stroenii i sostave, - pisal O. Mandel'shtam o svoem pojeticheskim kredo. I okazalsja prav, navsegda ostaviv nepodrazhaemyj sled v istorii russkogo stihoslozhenija i literatury. Tot, kto hot' raz slyshal, chital proizvedenija Mandel'shtama, navsegda ostaetsja...

Osip Mandel'shtam - genial'nyj russkij pojet, obladavshij unikal'nym chuvstvom jazyka, pervenstvo kotorogo sredi pojetov priznavala Anna Ahmatova; avtor izyskannoj prozy, perevodchik. Vot uzhe chetvert' veka, kak ja, meshaja vazhnoe s pustjakami, naplyvaju na russkuju pojeziju, no vskore stihi moi sol'jutsja s nej, koe-chto izmeniv v ee stroenii i sostave, - pisal O. Mandel'shtam o svoem pojeticheskim kredo. I okazalsja prav, navsegda ostaviv nepodrazhaemyj sled v istorii russkogo stihoslozhenija i literatury. Tot, kto hot' raz slyshal, chital proizvedenija Mandel'shtama, navsegda ostaetsja...

Osip Mandel'shtam - genial'nyj russkij pojet, obladavshij unikal'nym chuvstvom jazyka, pervenstvo kotorogo sredi pojetov priznavala Anna Ahmatova; avtor izyskannoj prozy, perevodchik. Vot uzhe chetvert' veka, kak ja, meshaja vazhnoe s pustjakami, naplyvaju na russkuju pojeziju, no vskore stihi moi sol'jutsja s nej, koe-chto izmeniv v ee stroenii i sostave, - pisal O. Mandel'shtam o svoem pojeticheskim kredo. I okazalsja prav, navsegda ostaviv nepodrazhaemyj sled v istorii russkogo stihoslozhenija i literatury. Tot, kto hot' raz slyshal, chital proizvedenija Mandel'shtama, navsegda ostaetsja...

Osip Mandel'shtam - genial'nyj russkij pojet, obladavshij unikal'nym chuvstvom jazyka, pervenstvo kotorogo sredi pojetov priznavala Anna Ahmatova; avtor izyskannoj prozy, perevodchik. Vot uzhe chetvert' veka, kak ja, meshaja vazhnoe s pustjakami, naplyvaju na russkuju pojeziju, no vskore stihi moi sol'jutsja s nej, koe-chto izmeniv v ee stroenii i sostave, - pisal O. Mandel'shtam o svoem pojeticheskim kredo. I okazalsja prav, navsegda ostaviv nepodrazhaemyj sled v istorii russkogo stihoslozhenija i literatury. Tot, kto hot' raz slyshal, chital proizvedenija Mandel'shtama, navsegda ostaetsja...