SOURCE: "The Passion of Aleksandr Blok," in Twentieth-Century Russian Literary Criticism, edited by Victor Erlich, Yale University Press, 1975, pp. 117-37.
In the following essay, which first appeared in Zhirmunskij's The Poetry of Alexander Blok (1921), Zhirmunskij traces the development of Blok's love poetry and his poetry about Russia, underscoring the spiritual basis of both sets of verse.
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