Original sentence: Akhmatova's reputation continued to grow after her death, and it was in the year of her centenary that her Requiem, was finally published in her homeland.Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, elaborately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the Stalinist terror.Only a few people in the West suspected that she was still alive, when she was allowed to publish a collection of new poems in 1940.She earned her living by translating Leopardi and publishing some essays on Pushkin in scholarly periodicals
Edited sentence: Akhmatova's reputation continued to grow after her death, and it was in the year of her centenary that one of the greatest poetic monuments of the 20th century, Akhmatova's Requiem, was finally published in her homeland.Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the Stalinist terror.Only a few people in the West were suspecting that she was still alive, when she was allowed to publish a collection of new poems in 1940.She earned her living by translating Leopardi and publishing some brilliant essays on Pushkin in scholarly periodicals