The Development of Russian Verse - Meter and Its Meanings

An exploration of poetic form in the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky, first published in 1999.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Note on translations and transliterations; Introduction; 1. The Russian ballad: passion, betrayal, revenge, and the amphibrachic tetrameter line; 2. The blank verse lyric: '... Again I visited' revisited; 3. The Onegin stanza: from poetic digression to poetic nostalgia; 4. Russian Arcadia: the elegiac distich and classical stylization; 5. Heirs of Mayakovsky: the poet and the citizen; Afterword: the meaning of form; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This 1999 book explores the Russian verse tradition from Pushkin to Brodsky. Keeping technical terms to a minimum and providing English translations of Russian quotations, Michael Wachtel offers close readings of poems by more than fifty poets, and demonstrates the practical interpretive value of paying attention to poetic form.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Wachtel
• Assisted by: Anthony Cross (Editor), Anthony Professor Cross (Editor), Catriona Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521620789
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62078-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 710 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Russian L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies