Aleksandr Blok: Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781857544732)

Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived thought his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem The Twelve has claims to being the first great poem of the Russian Revolution. It remains enigmatic, the language elevated, the tone celebratory, even mystical. Mayakovsky, bringing Revolution into the very language and form of his poetry, wrote against Blok and the old forms, answering The Twelve with 150,000,000. Trotsky wrote Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him. But for Pasternak and others among his successors, he was a great and unofficial master.

Author: Aleksandr Blok
ISBN-10: 1857544730
ISBN-13: 9781857544732
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.20d