In the poetry of Anna Akhmatova the nineteenth-century myth of Petersburg, as the accursed, unreal city, is filtered through the vision of a poet born in Imperial Russia and destined to confront the terrors of Soviet rule. The city that emerges embodies loss and dislocation, continuity and miraculous survival. This "scholarly and imaginative study" (New York Review of Books) convincingly demonstrates that a good part of Akhmatovas verse could never have been written but for the Petersburg environment.
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In the poetry of Anna Akhmatova the nineteenth-century myth of Petersburg, as the accursed, unreal city, is filtered through the vision of a poet born in Imperial Russia and destined to confront the terrors of Soviet rule. The city that emerges embodies loss and dislocation, continuity and miraculous survival. This "scholarly and imaginative study" (New York Review of Books) convincingly demonstrates that a good part of Akhmatovas verse could never have been written but for the Petersburg environment.
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Near Fine in very good jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 215 pp. Illustrated in b&w, including frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Two small tears to DJ's head of the spine. Corners of DJ have been rubbed. Tiny spot of discoloration on the rear pastedown. Boards and contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0521257816. A nice, bright copy. Previous owners stamp and writing on first leaf.; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches; 224 pages.
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