Mandelstam: The Later Poetry
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In the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a testament to artistic courage and a direct challenge to the suffocating machinery of the Stalinist state. Mandelstam: The Later Poetry is a rigorous scholarly examination of the mature and final works of this towering Acmeist poet, written by Jennifer Baines, Lecturer in Russian at the University of Durham. Baines meticulously analyses the dense allusive texture of Mandelstam's later cycles — including the infamous Moscow Notebooks and Voronezh Notebooks — illuminating the complex interplay of classical imagery, political terror, and lyric survival that defines this extraordinary period of his output. Baines argues with precision and erudition that Mandelstam's later poetry represents not a decline under pressure, but an astonishing intensification of craft — a metamorphosis forged in exile and persecution. Drawing on close textual readings and a deep command of Russian literary tradition, she situates these poems within their biographical and cultural context, revealing how a poet stripped of almost everything continued to construct worlds of profound beauty and subversion. For anyone drawn to the intersection of language, power, and the indomitable human spirit, this study presents a question that lingers long after the final page: how does a poet sing when silence is the price of survival?
Author: Jennifer Baines
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a testament to artistic courage and a direct challenge to the suffocating machinery of the Stalinist state. Mandelstam: The Later Poetry is a rigorous scholarly examination of the mature and final works of this towering Acmeist poet, written by Jennifer Baines, Lecturer in Russian at the University of Durham. Baines meticulously analyses the dense allusive texture of Mandelstam's later cycles — including the infamous Moscow Notebooks and Voronezh Notebooks — illuminating the complex interplay of classical imagery, political terror, and lyric survival that defines this extraordinary period of his output. Baines argues with precision and erudition that Mandelstam's later poetry represents not a decline under pressure, but an astonishing intensification of craft — a metamorphosis forged in exile and persecution. Drawing on close textual readings and a deep command of Russian literary tradition, she situates these poems within their biographical and cultural context, revealing how a poet stripped of almost everything continued to construct worlds of profound beauty and subversion. For anyone drawn to the intersection of language, power, and the indomitable human spirit, this study presents a question that lingers long after the final page: how does a poet sing when silence is the price of survival?