A Necklace of Bees: Selected Poems [Paperback]

Osip Mandelstam (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1992

Poetry. Osip Mandelstam was born in 1891. Professor Donald Rayfield, in his notes to Chapter 42 and the Goldfinch by Nadezhda and Osip Mandelstam, wrote that Mandelstam's "poetry of the thirties, almost all unpublished in his own lifetime, marks him as arguably the greatest Russian poet this century." He died in a Siberian transit camp in 1938. Elaine Feinstein, in her foreword to A NECKLACE OF BEES, writes that "Maria Enzensberger has chosen not only early poems where Mandelstam is grateful for the quiet joy of being alive, but later poems which have the 'flavour of smoke and grief;' the abrupt, intimate, miraculous poems of Mandelstam's years in exile. And here these translations speak with heartbreaking clarity." Maria Enzensberger was born in Moscow in 1943. She died in London in 1991.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

About the Author

Russian poet and essayist, who is regarded alongside Boris Pastenak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova as one of the greatest voices of the 20th-century Russian poetry. Most of Mandelstam's works were unknown outside his own country and went unpublished during the Stalin era (1929-53). Along with Anna Akhmatova, Mandelstam was one of the foremost members of Acmeist school of poetry. His early works were impersonal but later he also analyzed his own experiences, history, and the current events.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Menard Press (January 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0951375369
• ISBN-13: 978-0951375365
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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