Osip Mandelstam: Selected Essays

by Osip Mandelstam

Book Overview

Osip Mandelstam, who died anonymously in a Siberian transit-camp in 1938, is now generally considered to be among the four or five greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the work and place of the poet. Mandelstam's views...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292741456
• ISBN13: 9780292741454
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"