| #407571 in Books | 1994-01-01 | 1994-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.70 x.40 x5.10l,.30 | File type: PDF | 160 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Disappointed with the translation rather than the poet|By doc peterson|A contemporary of Akhmatova, Blok and Rilke, Tsvetaeva is not well known outside her native Russia. She was apparently demanding, difficult, and hard to get along with. One certainly gets a sense of this from her writing. Her poetry, given the time she wrote (the collection here spans from 1916 - 1936) is|From Publishers Weekly|Although generally less well known here than Pasternak, Akhmatova and Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva is counted by some critics as the greatest of these four major poets of postrevolutionary Russia. However, as veteran translator McDuff indicates i
An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poet
An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the social devastation wrought by the Russian Revolution and a powerfully inspired chronicler of a difficult life and exile sustained by poetry. Pasternak "was immediately overcome by the immense lyrical power of her poetic form. It... had spring living from experien...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) | Marina Tsvetaeva. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
