[PDF] Nikolai Gumilev On Russian Poetry eBook

Author : Nikolai Gumilev
Publisher : Glagoslav Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1911414658

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Gumilev holds a unique position in the history of Russian poetry as a result of his profound involvement with Africa. He extensively wrote both poetry and prose on the culture of the continent in general and on Ethiopia (Abyssinia, as it was called in Gumilev’s time) in particular. During his abbreviated lifetime Gumilev made four trips to Northern and Eastern Africa, the most extensive of which was a 1913 expedition to Abyssinia undertaken on assignment from the St. Petersburg Imperial Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. During that trip Gumilev collected Ethiopian folklore and ethnographic objects, which, upon his return to St. Petersburg, he deposited at the Museum. He and his assistant Nikolai Sverchkov also made more than 200 photographs that offer a unique picture of the African country in the early part of the century. This volume collects all of Gumilev’s poetry and prose written about Africa for the first time as well as a number of the photographs that he and Nikolai Sverchkov took during their trip that give a fascinating view of that part of the world in the early twentieth century. Translated by Slava I. Yastremski, Michael M. Naydan, and Maria Badanova.

Author : Earl D. Sampson
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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This work examines Gumilev's contributions to Russian poetry. It also includes a lengthy biographical chapter.

Author : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300103779

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Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus. Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet’s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova’s poems and how and why they were created.

Author : Frances Laird
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781403324191

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Class Act is a fictional suspense thriller, written in the Hitchcock tradition of slowly building the viewer's apprehension, while engaging his innate fear. The heroine, Dr. Angie Nolan, a psychology professor, is stalked by a killer whose identity is eventually revealed through a series of demented actions. Whoever stalks her has access to her office, her classroom, and her private life. She agonizes over the question of whether the predator is a student, staff member, or friend. No aspect of her existence remains untouched, including the terror of her dreams each night. She confides in Jake Yeager, the new Director of Security, who has demons of his own. His previous career as a US Marshall, provides him a comprehensive understanding of what the 'hunted' suffer. Years of work with the witness protection program sharpened his suspicion of everyday occurrences. In an effort to provide her protection, he unwittingly sets into motion an escalation and acceleration of violence. Angie knows time is running out when the stalker leaves a calling card of burned animals and a whispered message on her answering machine, 'I wanna touch you as you die.....I wanna touch you as you die...' Not until the final chapters of the books, does Angie fully comprehend the complexity of the predator. By then, her life and the lives of her friends depend upon her ability to engage the arrogance of the killer long enough for help to arrive.

Author : Martin Bidney
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781537320137

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The poetry of Nikolay Gumilev (1886-1921) is part of the life of every educated Russian. Children read him in school for his appealing adventure tales-notably "The Discovery of America," where he shows Columbus guided by the same spirit that gave life to the Russian poet's own lifetime work-the "Muse of Distant Travel." To young Russians Gumilev plays a role like that of Antoine de Saint-�Exup�ry for the youth of France. Yet, characteristically, the "Discovery" is filled with meaning for every mental traveler. One of the central poets of the 20th century, a celebrator of love and risk, heroism and passion, a psychological explorer of deep acuity and a wanderer whose work could almost serve as a poetic world atlas, Gumilev was an officer in the White army and co-�founded the influential poetic movement of Acmeism. Contemporary with Joseph Conrad, he devoted a book to his pioneering journeys in Africa-where he mapped uncharted terrain. There is nothing like this African panorama in modern Western verse. Gumilev needs to be better known in America for his lyrical work-mellifluent, vigorous, and riveting.The eight unabridged Gumilev collections offered here in form-�true renderings will at last allow speakers of English a chance to acquire a thorough acquaintance with one of the finest and-to native speakers-best-�known poets of the Russian canon. Romantic Flowers (1908) offers a kaleidoscope of the poet's early interests, mainly in the Symbolist tradition. Pearl (1910) adds a more detailed realism and offers outstanding narrative poems on Odysseus and Adam. The five-�part Alien Sky (1912) combines the vivid concrete imagery of Acmeism with passionate lyrics often conveying a religious dimension, as in "The Prodigal Son" and the Islamic poem "Pilgrim," and ending with a hilarious one-�act comedy in verse, "Don Juan in Egypt." Quiver (1916) is filled with European travel postcards and character sketches. In Pyre (1918) many lyrics are tenderly personal. In the brief Porcelain Pavilion (1918) we find vignettes of domestic life in China and Indochina, while Tent (1918) is an epic-�scale travelogue of Africa, blending realism and boys' adventure fantasy. Fire Column (1921) achieves a culminating religious and philosophic depth.

Author : Sibelan Elizabeth S. Forrester
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 9781618113702

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Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets, such as Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva, are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment. After a thorough introduction, the volume offers brief biographies of the poets and selections of their work in translation--many of them translated especially for this volume--as well as critical and fictional texts (some by the poets themselves) that help establish the context and outline the lively discourse of the era and its indelible moral and artistic aftermath.

Author : Julia Titus
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0300184824

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Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, Poetry Reader for Russian Learners helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are coded by level of difficulty. The text facilitates students' interaction with authentic texts, assisted by a complete set of learning tools, including biographical sketches of each poet, stress marks, annotations, exercises, questions for discussion, and a glossary. An ancillary Web site contains audio files for all poems.