Lyric poetry and modern politics Russia, Poland, and the West / Clare Cavanagh.

Author/creator Cavanagh, Clare
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxi, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Lyric poetry--History and criticism.
Russian poetry--20th century. --History and criticism.
Polish poetry--20th century. --History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History. --20th century.
Politics in literature.

Contents Introduction: acknowledged legislation -- Courting disaster: Blok and yeats -- Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the body politic -- The death of the book a la russe: the Acmeists under Stalin -- Akhmatova and the forms of responsibility: the Poem without a Hero -- Avant-guarde again, or the posthumous Polish adventures of Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Bringing up the rear: the histories of Wislawa Szymborska -- Counterrevolution in poetic language: Poland's Generation of '68 -- The unacknowledged legislator's dream: Czeslaw Milosz and Anglo-American poetry -- Afterword: martyrs, survivors, and success stories, or the postcommunist prophet.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-315) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009023902
ISBN9780300152968 (pbk. : alk. paper)