The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

10 best books like The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova): Selected Poems, The Selected Poems, The Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Ruslan and Ludmila, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry, Poems New and Collected, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001, The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories

Selected Poems

Author	Marina Tsvetaeva
ISBN	0140187596

Under normal circumstances with poetry I always like an in-depth read up on the writer prior to reading if it's somebody that I know nothing about, in the case of Marina Tsvetaeva my knowledge of her was non-existent, but hastily threw myself into the deep end instead of getting my feet wet first, so I had...

The Selected Poems

Author	Osip Mandelstam
ISBN	1590170911

Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian poetry but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan...

The Collected Poems

Author	Sergei Yesenin
ISBN	0970580304

"Preserving in English the immortal spirit and rhyme of the great Russian genius."

Biographical notes on Esenin and Isadora Duncan precede each vol. and some chapters.

Includes several color reproductions of landscape paintings by Isaac Levitan mounted on pages with captions,...

Selected Poems

Author	Alexander Blok
ISBN	1857544730

Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.' Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'.

Ruslan and Ludmila

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	5050047730

Had I been 15, I would've certainly fallen in love with or say fantasized about Ruslan and though I'm not, this poetical work has been successful in charming me. Pushkin's dedication, "Queens of my heart, you lovely girls, they're meant for you and only you" was something I felt throughout. He weaves...

The Bedbug and Selected Poetry

Author	Vladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN	0253201896

Have you seen
a dog lick the hand that thrashed it?!

The five stars are for the poetry. the play is a satire which endures because of its all too human kernel. The verse is loud, a clamoring. Metallic. I appreciate a verb like shock in this instance. Current is also a valuable word when considering...

Poems New and Collected

Author	Wisława Szymborska
ISBN	0156011468

Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously...

Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann

Author	Ingeborg Bachmann
ISBN	0939010844

Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann’s two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most important...

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

Author	Czesław Miłosz
ISBN	0060514485

New and Collected Poems: 1931—2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into...

The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories

Author	Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
ISBN	1410102351

Stories contained in this volume: Moloch, Olesya, Night Duty, The White Poodle, I Was An Actor, The Gambrinus Emerald, The Garnet Bracelet. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was an army officer for several years before he resigned to pursue a...

Collected Poems in English

Author	Joseph Brodsky
ISBN	0374528381

One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here, collected for the first time, are...

Selected Poems

Author

Boris Pasternak

A Russian Gentleman

Author	Sergei Aksakov
ISBN	0192815733

At the center of this chronicle of Russian provincial life in the reign of Catherine the Great stands the patriarchal figure of the author's grandfather, Stepan Mikhailovich. A man of great natural dignity, imbued with respect for tradition and love of the land, he is also despotic and virtually illiterate....

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Author

Robert Chandler

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and...

Тёмные аллеи

Author	Ivan Bunin
ISBN	5352002373

Когда-то давно, ещё в школе, наша заботливая учительница литературы выбрала на свой вкус пару рассказов Бунина, и я точно помню, что они были из сборника...

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems

Author	Paul Schmidt
ISBN	1590171918

A New York Review Books Original

A master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English

In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians,...

The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

Author	Zbigniew Herbert
ISBN	0060783907

This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's...

Лирика

Author	Mikhail Lermontov
ISBN	5699013512

Поэт в России - больше, чем поэт.
В ней суждено поэтами рождаться
лишь тем, в ком бродит гордый дух гражданства,
кому уюта нет, покоя нет.
(Е. А. Евтушенко)

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