Poems of Akhmatova : Izbrannye Stikhi

Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent biographies attest to a remarkable resurgence of interest in her poetry in this country. Here is the essence of Akhmatova - a landmark selection and translation, including excerpts from "Poem with a Hero."

Introduction

3

(26)

A Note on the Translations

29

(10)

1. Reading Hamlet

39

(2)

2. Pushkin

41

(2)

3. "I Wrung My Hands..."

43

(2)

4. "Heart's Memory of Sun..."

45

(2)

5. "Three Things Enchanted Him..."

47

(2)

6. To the Muse

49

(2)

7. "We're All Drunkards Here..."

51

(2)

8. The Guest

53

(2)

9. To Alexander Blok

55

(2)

10. "How Can You Look at the Neva?..."

57

(2)

11. July 1914

59

(4)

12. "All Has Been Taken Away..."

63

(2)

13. "We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye..."

65

(2)

14. "When in the Throes of Suicide..."

67

(2)

15. "Now Nobody Will Want to Listen to Songs..."

69

(2)

16. "Why Is This Age Worse...?"

71

(2)

17. "Everything is Plundered..."

73

(2)

18. "I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land..."

75

(2)

19. Lot's Wife

77

(2)

20. The Muse

79

(2)

21. The Last Toast

81

(2)

22. Boris Pasternak

83

(4)

23. Voronezh

87

(2)

24. Dante

89

(2)

25. Imitation from the Armenian

91

(2)

26. In Memory of M. B.

93

(2)

27. Cleopatra

95

(2)

28. Willow

97

(2)

29. Requiem

99

(20)

30. In 1940

119

(6)

31. Courage

125

(2)

32. The Return

127

(2)

33. "This Cruel Age Has Deflected Me..."

129

(4)

34. "Your Lynx-Eyes, Asia..."

133

(2)

35. March Elegy

135

(2)

36. Epigram

137

(2)

37. The Death of Sophocles

139

(2)

38. Alexander at Thebes

141

(2)

39. There Are Four of Us

143

(2)

40. From Poem without a Hero

145

(14)

Notes on the Poems

159

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