Yevgeny Yevtushenko Summary

Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), the most popular of contemporary Russian poets, was the leading literary spokesman for the generation of Russians who grew to maturity after Stalin's dea... Read more

In the following essay, Reavey places Yevtushenko in the context of Russian literature and chronicles his work through the mid-1960s. 1. Russia and the Spectre of the Poet There is something about ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Glaessner and Dutton extol the importance of Yevtushenko as a poet and remark on the problems encountered translating his poetry into English. To understand this poem of Y... Read more

In the following review, Ulyashov extols the universal theme and important message of the poem “Fukú!” Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poetry has long been part of the Soviet read... Read more

In the following review, Rumens characterizes Yevtushenko's poetry as high energy. “Who the hell is this damned Y Y?,” asks Yevtushenko in the forward to Stolen Apples (1973), ... Read more

In the following review, Brodsky praises Yevtushenko's accessibility and the power of visual details in his poetry. The new Collected Poems 1952-1990 reflects YevgenyYevtushenko's poe... Read more

Critical Essay by Rima Shore The actors in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty wait onstage for the audience to enter…. Sitting casually against the large meta... Read more

Critical Essay by Vickie A. Babenko Many contemporary Soviet poets write about women … but Evtushenko's poems on the subject are somewhat different from those of other poets. While most... Read more

Critical Essay by Blake Morrison Love Poems cannot be regarded as one of [Yevtushenko's] major publications: only half a dozen poems have not appeared in translation before…. But it is ... Read more

In the following essay, Reynolds discusses Yevtushenko's reputation in relation to his politics. If it is hard for a poet to become a legend in his time, surely remaining a legend is still h... Read more

In the following review, Sterritt praises the cinematic style of I Am Cuba. Confounding the conventional view that the newest movies are the most exciting movies, rediscoveries from bygone years ar... Read more

In the following review, Wilson-Smith assesses the literary merits of Don't Die before You're Dead, concentrating on characterization and thematic emotion. If Yevgeny Yevtushenko did ... Read more

In the following review, Chamberlain appreciates the vitality and balance of the account of the 1991 Russian putsch in Don't Die Before You're Dead. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a household... Read more

In the following essay, Burnside provides an overview of Yevtushenko's literary career in comparison to contemporary and past writers and themes. When a friend took Yevgeny Yevtushenko to Ba... Read more

In the following review, Thompson pans Don't Die before You're Dead, charging Yevtushenko with obfuscating historical realities. Between the cold-blooded planners of Soviet strategy, ... Read more

In the following essay, Kidder expresses Yevtushenko's concerns about the state of Russian politics, poetry, and attitudes toward indigenous cultural traditions in the era of perestroika. Ye... Read more

In the following review, Venclova traces the evolution of Yevtushenko's "accommodating" tone, themes, and style in both his poetry and prose and his changing relevance to Russian ... Read more

In the following review, Brodsky provides a thematic and stylistic overview of the contents of The Collected Poems. The new Collected Poems 1952–1990 reflects Yevgeny Yevtushenko's po... Read more

In the following review, Ludwig outlines the principal themes of Fatal Half Measures, revealing their significance to Yevtushenko's poetic works. Until the publication of this book [Fatal Ha... Read more

Critical Essay by Andrew Motion Like most of his modernist contemporaries, Eliot believed that 'The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality&#... Read more

Critical Essay by Emma Fisher [In his long poem Ivan the Terrible and Ivan the Fool], Yevtushenko puts his money on the workers, on the blue-eyed, ill-used, unstoppable Ivan the Fool, against Ivan th... Read more

Critical Essay by Edwin Morgan It is very clear from the prefatory poems, from the introduction and from the dedication to Edward Steichen, that [Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Invisible Threads] is a ... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly Set in the Chile of the Pinochet coup, [Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "A Dove in Santiago"] is the tragic story of 21-year-old Enrique. As an artist, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Dalton "The new young Mayakovsky of today," says Herbert Marshall of Yevgeny Yevtushenko. And there is indeed some parallel between the personalities and work... Read more

Critical Essay by Julian Symons It is very easy for any book reader to see that parts of Yevtushenko's loose series of poems that make up a hymn of praise to The Bratsk Station (a new Siberian... Read more

Critical Essay by Alayne P. Reilly Yevtushenko has come close to being an ideal socialist-realist poet, lending his talents to the exposition of social and political themes as well as to the intimate... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Schmidt Translations of contemporary poetry are a kind of dust-sheet. Beneath it, the reader tries to distinguish the solid furniture. [Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin, the... Read more