Her poetry reminds me somewhat of dickinson in her ability to invest the homely and the diurnal with deep emotion and rich meaning. Anna akhmatova23 june 1889 5 march 1966 anna andreyevna gorenko, better known by the pen name anna akhmatova, was a russian and soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading anna of all the russias. In 1912, the guild of poets published akhmatovas book of verse evening vecher the first of five in. A popular poet of the acmeist school, she took a pseudonym when her upperclass father objected to her decadent choice of career. A twovolume edition of akhmatova s collected works was published in moscow in 1986, and the complete poems of anna akhmatova, also in two volumes, appeared in 1990. Requiem is an elegy by anna akhmatova about suffering of people under the great purge. Anna akhmatova books list of books by author anna akhmatova. Anna akhmatova 18891966 is, along with her contemporary marina tsvetaeva, the most. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. She also translated italian, french, armenian, and korean poetry.
Publication date 1994 topics akhmatova, anna andreevna, 18891966, poets, russian 20th century. Anna akhmatova poems by the famous poet all poetry. In addition to poetry, anna akhmatova akmahtuhvuh wrote an unfinished play and many essays on russian writers. Buy the complete poems of anna akhmatova book online at low. That said, the sheer depth and detail of reeders work makes her book. Her earlier manner, intimate and colloquial, gradually gave way to a more classical severity, apparent in her volumes the whte flock. This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as. Her father was a retired maritime engineer who moved his family to tsarskoye selo near st.
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