Craftsmen of the Word : Three Poets of Modern Russia: Gumilyov, Akhmatova, Mandelstam

The Acmeist poets Gumilyov, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam brought a new clarity and vigor to Russian poetry and laid down a canon for its further development. Leonid Strakhovsky’s essays on the three poets, together with his translations of forty of their poems which have not appeared previously in English, do much to contribute to our understanding of contemporary Soviet poetry and modern Russian literature as a whole. PREFACE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. NICHOLAS GUMILYOV THE POET-WARRIOR II. ANNA AKHMATOVA POETESS OF TRAGIC LOVE III. OSIP MANDELSTAM ARCHITECT OF THE WORD NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY