Anna Andreevna Gorenko [А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко] ( 23 June {11 June O.S. } 1889 - 5 March 1966 ) Russian poet, known primarily by her pen name Anna Akhmatova [А́нна Ахма́това] Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 In Memory of...
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 of everyday emotions. Anna Akhmatova, the pen name...
Anna Akhmatova is regarded as one of the greatest Russian poets. Besides poetry, which constitutes the lion's share of her literary legacy, she wrote prose--primarily memoirs, autobiographical pieces, and literary scholarship, including her outstanding...
Considered Russia's finest female poet, Akhmatova is known for her accessible style and concrete images. Her poems deal with personal issues of love and suffering, but are often interpreted as metaphors for the plight of the Russian people as a...
Anna Akhmatova (Russian: А́нна Ахма́това, real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23 [O.S. June 11] 1889 — March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of the...
For Anna Akhmatova Who had been in love with her that summer? Did it matter? The incidental willow is what she would remember, bare like a silver brooch on a sky of foxfur during the winters of famine and deportations. She wished she had...
9 REMEMBERING ANNA AKHMATOVA. By Anatoly Nayman. Holt. 240 pp. $29.95. Shortly before her death in 1966, Anna Akhmatova, vilified by the Soviet authorities for most of her creative life, confided, A poet is someone to whom nothing can be given and...
American poet (b. July 29, 1905, Worcester, Mass. —d. May 14, 2006, New York, N.Y. ), was noted for his subtle craftsmanship and his treatment of complex themes. Kunitz attended Harvard University (B.A.,1926; M.A., 1927). While working as an editor, he contributed poems to magazines,...
Clive James has a high-maintenance girlfriend: the reader. To educate this girlfriend, to correct her wayward mind and haphazard schooling, he has written more than 100 loosely related essays on artists, intellectuals and tyrants, mostly of the 20th century—a crash course in modern history and...
In the following essay, Simon analyzes what Lydia Chukovskaya's The Akhmatova Journals reveal about Anna Akhmatova, and he also points out what the book is lacking, including better footnotes and better translations of the poet's work.
