Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology

Various

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Length

3 h 20 min

Chapters

15

Language

English

Genre

Anthologies

First published

1921

Chapters

1. 1 IntroductionRead by Kevin W. Davidson 18:58
2. 2 Yevgeny Baratynsky: Prayer; Alexey Koltzov: An Old Man's Song; Mikhail Lermontov: The Angel - The Cup of Live - Gratitude - From "The Deamon," Part I, xv - Captive KnightRead by Kevin W. Davidson 11:09
3. 3 Fyodor Tyutchev: Twilight - "As Ocean's Stream" - Silentium - Autumn Evening - July 14, At Night - "Oh, Thou, My Wizard Soul"; Nikolai Nekrasov: "The Capitals Are Ricked with Thunder" - "My Poems!" - The Salt SongRead by Kevin W. Davidson 10:16
4. 4 Alexey K. Tolstoy: "My Little Almond Tree: - "A Well and the Cherry Trees Swaying:" - "Oh, the Ricks"; Apollon Maikov: Art - "Upon This Wild Headland" - Summer Rain; Afanasy Shenshin-Foeth: "Whispers, Timid Breathing: - The Aerial City - SwallowsRead by Kevin W. Davidson 11:45
5. 5 Yakov Polonsky: The Cosmic Fabric - Sorrow's Madness; Vladimir Solovyov: "Below the Sultry Storm" - "With Wavering Feet"; N. Minsky: Force - My Temple; Dmitry Merezhkovsky: A Prayer - The Trumpet Call - The Curse of LoveRead by Kevin W. Davidson 17:24
6. 6 Fyodor Solgub: The Amphora - The Dragon - "When, Heaving on the Stormy Waters" - "Austere the Music of My Songs" - The Devil's Swings; Zinaida Hippius: "I seek for Rhythmic Whisperings" - Psyche - CreationRead by Kevin W. Davidson 11:58
7. 7 Kinstantin Balmont: "With My Fancy I Grasped" - Centuries of Centuries Will Pass - In the White Land - Hymn to FireRead by Kevin W. Davidson 12:38
8. 8 Valery Brusov: The Tryst - "Radiant Ranks of Seraphim" - Benediction - Inevitability - The Fierce Birds - Eventide - "Oh, Cover" - Saint Sebastian - The Coming HunsRead by Kevin W. Davidson 12:00
9. 9 Ivan Bunin: Russian Spring - A Song - The God of Noon - In an Empty House - Flax; Vyacheslav Ivanov: The Catch - Autumn - Fountain - The Seeking of Self - Complaint - Narcissus: A Pompeiian Bronze - Funeral - The Holy Rose - Nomads of BeautyRead by Kevin W. Davidson 15:54
10. 10 Yurgis Baltrushiatis: The Pendulum - The Surf; Maximillian Volshin: Cimmerian Twilight I-III - Sonnet XV (From the Sonnet-Cycle "Lunaria") - Stigmata; Mikhail Kuzmin: "Now Dry the Eyes" - "Night Was Done" - From Alexandrian SongsRead by Kevin W. Davidson 15:01
11. 11 Georgy Chulkov: "Purple Autumn"; Alexander Blok: "Into Crimson Dark" - The Unknown Woman - The Lady Unknown - "A Little Black Man" - Russia - "When Mountain-ash" - The Scythians - From "The Twelve" : 9Read by Kevin W. Davidson 18:33
12. 12 Andrey Bely: Messengers - Euthanasia - "You Sit on the Bed There"; Victor Hofman: "Still Was the Evening"; Vasily Bashkin: "Upon the Black Brow of a Cliff" ; Sergey Gorodetzky: Yarila - The Birch Tree; Anna Akhmatova: "Like a White Stone" - Confession - "Broad Gold, the Evening" - PrayerRead by Kevin W. Davidson 15:05
13. 13 Igor Severyanin: And It Passed by the Sea-Shore - A Russian Song - Spring Apple-Tree; Nikolai Kluyev: A Northern Poem - An Izba Song; Lubov Stolitza: A Lenten OneRead by Kevin W. Davidson 9:09
14. 14 Sergei Yesenin: "Upon Green Hills" - Hopes Painted by the Autumn Cold" - "In the Clear Cold" - Transfiguration: III; Z. Shishova: "How Strange, Oh God"; Piotr Oreshin: Not by Hands CreatedRead by Kevin W. Davidson 8:11
15. 15 Anatoly Marienhof: "Savage, Nomad Hordes" - OctoberRead by Kevin W. Davidson 3:51

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