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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFY

Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Thomas, illustrates her broad scope and brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities.



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A genius of Russian poetry * Sunday Times *
Once, when young, she had written the lines which lovers quoted to one another. Later she provided words which thousands of men and women repeated under their breath, as they suffered, feared and waited. * Observer *
The greatest Russian poetess of the twentieth century -- Joseph Brodsky
Her fortitude and independence, the breadth of her compassion and the clarity of her realistic vision erased the line between herself and others; her intensely personal lyrics became the void of her nation's tragedy * New York Times Book Review *
The extraordinary misery of her life and the extraordinary merits of her poems make Anna Akhmatova one of the great literary figures of modern times * Economist *

Selected Poems

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 1 November 2009
      ISBN-13 9780099540878
      978-0099540878
      ISBN-10 0099540878
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFY

      Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Thomas, illustrates her broad scope and brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities.



      Trade Review
      A genius of Russian poetry * Sunday Times *
      Once, when young, she had written the lines which lovers quoted to one another. Later she provided words which thousands of men and women repeated under their breath, as they suffered, feared and waited. * Observer *
      The greatest Russian poetess of the twentieth century -- Joseph Brodsky
      Her fortitude and independence, the breadth of her compassion and the clarity of her realistic vision erased the line between herself and others; her intensely personal lyrics became the void of her nation's tragedy * New York Times Book Review *
      The extraordinary misery of her life and the extraordinary merits of her poems make Anna Akhmatova one of the great literary figures of modern times * Economist *

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