It is argued that for women elegy can also be a form of political protest, allied with their need for affiliation with each other that puts women's voices at the center of women's elegies. The work ...of Anna Akhmatova, Denise Levertov and Carolyn Forche is highlighted.
The theme of intoxication, particularly alcoholic inebriation, is examined in the works of three Russian poets whose stature makes them both emblematic of the periods in which they lived & relevant ...in the greater realm of comparative literature: Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), the first major practitioner of Russian versification as now known; Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), the single most important Russian poet of all time; & Alexander Blok (1880-1921), the most widely acclaimed of the Russian symbolists. 1 Appendix. Modified AA
On Pasternak Soberly [1970] Milosz, Czeslaw
World literature today,
03/1989, Volume:
63, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
When it is considered that the Russian Revolution was expected to bring about the end of the alienation of the writer and of the artist, and consequently to inaugurate new poetry of a kind never ...known before, the place Boris Pasternak occupies today in Russian poetry is astounding. An appraisal of Pasternak's writings is offered.