The Poet and the Empire. (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abdullaev, Evgenii
• Is Part Of: Russian studies in literature. Volume 56:Number 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 31
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Osip Mandelstam; poetry; Pushkin; Robert Frost; Lidiia Ginzburg; Nikolai Nekrasov; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Periodicals; 891.7
• DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1872327
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1061-1975

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this second group of texts from the Znamia roundtables celebrating the 125th anniversary of Osip Mandelstam's birth, four more poets discuss questions that lead them to compare Mandelstam to other poets: Pushkin (Evgenii Abdullaev on the poet's relationship to empire); natural science (Grigorii Kruzhkov eliciting important features from Mandelstam's poem "Lamarck" by referring to Robert Frost's poem "The White-Tailed Hornet"); Lidiia Ginzburg (not a poet but an important scholar of Russian poetry, discussed by Boris Kutenkov); Nikolai Nekrasov (Aleksandr Kushner imagining a conversation between the two poets in which Mandelstam's references to Nekrasov are revealed).