A Poem Without a Hero
Author : Анна Андреевна Ахматова
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Russian poetry
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Author : Анна Андреевна Ахматова
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Russian poetry
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Author : Anna Akhmatova
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804040885
With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son’s fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones’ fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova’s beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas’s translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas’s stewardship, Akhmatova’s words ring clear as a bell.
Author : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Poetry
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Akhmatova was unquestionably one of the great poets of the 20th century. These exquisite translations convey the subtle beauties and daring associations of a poet whose long life proved poetry's capacity for survival and subversive resistance to tyranny.
Author : J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0803729251
Twenty-one entertaining, thought-provoking poems chronicle the good that people have done in service of others. Bypassing those of mere fame, this striking collection is a celebration of such persons as Gandhi, Rosa Parks, teachers, a thirteen-year-old child-labor crusader, firefighters, Cesar Chavez, a feisty nun, and: . . . the valiant and the brave. Those simple people known by Two simple words: They gave. Each portrait includes an expressive illustration and additional factual material, and an eloquent afterword tells of Mr. Lewis's own childhood hero. This memorable book invites readers to explore the legacy of human generosity which lights the path for tomorrow's heroes.
Author : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300103779
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 : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1821
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Author : Анна Андреевна Ахматова
Publisher :
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Akhmatova was recognised as one of the world's great poets after her death in 1966. Refusing to leave Russia when her work was censored and her name attacked she spoke to and for the soul of her people. There are 800 poems and essays in this edition some of which have not been published in English before.
Author : Matty Weingast
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834842688
An Ancient Collection Reimagined Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all. The original authors of the Therigatha were women from every kind of background, but they all shared a deep-seated desire for awakening and liberation. In The First Free Women, Matty Weingast has reimagined this ancient collection and created a contemporary and radical adaptation that takes the essence of each poem and highlights the struggles and doubts, as well as the strength, perseverance, and profound compassion, embodied by these courageous women.
Author : James Rumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618756377
A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.
Author : Wilfred Owen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1965-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811223671
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.