Anna Akhmatova Summary

Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) (Born Anna Andreevna Gorenko) Russian poet, essayist, and translator. Anna Akhmatova: Introduction Anna Akhmatova: Principal Works Anna Akhmatova: Primary Sources Anna Akh... Read more

The Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is the best-known member of the Acmeist movement. Her work is characterized by subtle understatement, careful variations in rhythm, and spontaneous recording... Read more

Critical Essay by Leonid I. Strakhovsky [In Vecher, Akhmatova's first book of poems, she] speaks about simple earthly happiness and about simple intimate and personal sorrow. Love, love'... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement [Anna Akhmatova's Selected Poems] ranges from whispers to anguished screams, from personal happiness to the most acute personal distress. It is ... Read more

Critical Essay by Amanda Haight In Akhmatova's poems we are faced with three images of the poet: the one arising out of the facts of her biography; the one created by Russo-Soviet criticism of... Read more

Critical Essay by Nikolai Bannikov Anna Akhmatova's personality was phenomenal. It was not given to any woman in Russian poetry before her to express herself with such convincing, lyrical powe... Read more

In the following essay, Kunitz discusses the difficulty in translating Akhmatova's poetry from its original Russian. Pasternak was once rebuked by a pedant who came to his door bearing a lon... Read more

Russell is an author and writes for art and culture for the New York Times. In the following essay, he describes the museum in St. Petersburg dedicated to Akhmatova. The most moving of all the muse... Read more

In the following essay, Cavanagh discusses how Akhmatova and fellow Acmeist Osip Mandel'shtam refused to be silenced by Stalinist oppression. In Of Grammatology (1967), Jacques Derrida apoca... Read more

In the following essay, Byelyakova provides an overview of Akhmatova's career. The life of Anna Akhmatova was a tragic one. Although she had her moments of glory she also experienced terribl... Read more

In the following review, Bayley presents an overview of Akhmatova's life and career in his discussion of three works concerning the poet: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Jud... Read more

In the following essay, Ketchian traces many of the devices and allusions in Akhmatova's poem "Stansy" to Pushkin. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Axmatova's poe... Read more

In the following review, Ketchian praises that The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is an important resource for lovers of Russian poetry, but complains that further editions need better editing to co... Read more

Critical Essay by Sam N. Driver In [Akhmatova's] four collections after Rosary, the love theme remains dominant despite the cataclysm of war and revolution, and the total destruction of the wo... Read more

Critical Essay by John Bayley Akhmatova was a very unselfconscious poet in many ways; she had qualities of elemental force, utterance haunted and Delphic; yet these went together with elegance and so... Read more