Lyric poetry and modern politics
Subtitle: Russia, Poland, and the West
By: Clare Cavanagh
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven, [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300152968
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: acknowledged legislation; title: Courting disaster: Blok and yeats; title: Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the body politic; title: The death of the book a la russe: the Acmeists under Stalin; title: Akhmatova and the forms of responsibility: the Poem without a Hero; title: Avant-guarde again, or the posthumous Polish adventures of Vladimir Mayakovsky; title: Bringing up the rear: the histories of Wislawa Szymborska; title: Counterrevolution in poetic language: Poland's Generation of '68; title: The unacknowledged legislator's dream: Czeslaw Milosz and Anglo-American poetry; title: Afterword: martyrs, survivors, and success stories, or the postcommunist prophet.