Music in Russian Poetry

by Paul Friedrich

This groundbreaking work from Paul Friedrich surveys the Russian lyric scene from the eighteenth century through the modern period, in terms of the poets' own ideas as well as the author's creative interpretation. Such themes as poetic craft, musicality, creativity, sociopolitical context, and multilingualism as musical competence are discussed, interrelated through their variations in twenty-one of Russia's finest lyric poets, and then synthesized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820433470
• ISBN13: 9780820433479
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 344 Pages