Osip Mandelstam

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface x
4. How To Use This Book xi
5. Some Issues in Translating Russian Poetry into English xv
6. Several Different Versions of the Same Russian Poem xx
7. Acknowledgments xxviii
8. Sources and Permissions xxx
9. Introduction: Poetry of the Russian Silver Age xxxviii
10. SECTION I: THE POETS
11. Biographies and Poetry 3
12. Anna Akhmatova 5
13. Innokenty Annensky 22
14. Nikolai Aseev 28
15. Konstantin Balmont 32
16. Andrei Bely 38
17. Alexander Blok 44
18. Valery Bryusov 58
19. Sergei Esenin 64
20. Zinaida Gippius 68
21. Nikolai Gumilyov 74
22. Vyacheslav Ivanov 80
23. Velimir Khlebnikov 83
24. Vladislav Khodasevich 94
25. Nikolai Klyuev 101
26. Alexei Kruchonykh 107
27. Mikhail Kuzmin 110
28. Mirra Lokhvitskaya 120
29. Osip Mandelstam 126
30. Vladimir Mayakovsky 147
31. Dmitri Merezhkovsky 166
32. Sofia Parnok 171
33. Boris Pasternak 176
34. Igor Severyanin 190
35. Maria Shkapskaya 193
36. Fyodor Sologub 198
37. Vladimir Solovyov 204
38. Marina Tsvetaeva 210
39. Maximilian Voloshin 237
40. Selected Bibliography of Poetry Translations 240
41. SECTION II: BEYOND POETRY
42. Introduction 245
43. Essays
44. From Poetry as Enchantment (1915) 248
45. Symbolism and Contemporary Russian Art (1908) 251
46. Keys to the Mysteries (1904) 269
47. A Holy Sacrifice (1905) 284
48. Symbolism’s Legacy and Acmeism (1913) 290
49. Nietzsche and Dionysus (1904) 294
50. The Precepts of Symbolism (1910) 304
51. Thoughts on Symbolism (1912) 321
52. The Morning of Acmeism (1913) 329
53. The Word and Culture (1921) 334
54. From The Apocalypse of Our Times (1917) 340
55. Poets’ Demons (1907) 343
56. Criticism
57. Innokenty Annensky (1963) 350
58. From “On Contemporary Lyrism” (1909) 353
59. In Memory of Vrubel (1916) 366
60. Chertova kukla (The Devil’s Doll): A Novel by Z. N. Gippius (1911) 370
61. Reviews of Works by Blok, Klyuev, Balmont, and Others (1912) 382
62. Review of Akhmatova’s Beads (1914) 391
63. Foreword to Evening by Anna Akhmatova (1912) 395
64. Review of Igor Severyanin’s The Thunder- Seething Goblet (1913) 398
65. On Contemporary Poetry: Almanac of the Muses (1916) 399
66. V. V. Khlebnikov (1922) Obituary note 402
67. In Quest of a Path for Art (1913) 409
68. On Symbolists and Decadents (1901) (from Religiia i kul'tura, St. Petersburg) 415
69. Reviews of Russian Symbolists (1894) 430
70. Downpour of Light: Poetry of Eternal Courage (1922) 443
71. The Horoscope of Cherubina de Gabriak (1909) 464
72. Memoirs
73. Reminiscences of Alexander Blok (1955) 473
74. From “Osip Mandelstam” (1964) 477
75. Bryusov (1925) (excerpt from the book Living Faces) 483
76. The End of Renata (1928) 485
77. From The One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer (1933) 497
78. From On the Banks of the Neva (1967) 499
79. On Vladimir Mayakovsky (1931) (from Safe Conduct) 508
80. From a review of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian Songs (1906) 521
81. Other Prose Works
82. Letter to Alexander Blok (1907) 524
83. Letter to Maximilian Voloshin (1909) 525
84. Futurist Manifestos (1912, 1913) 527
85. Letters to Vyacheslav Ivanov (1909) 531
86. Quote about the Stray Dog cabaret (no date) 535
87. The Demonic Woman (1913) 536
88. Thematic Index 541
89. Index of Poem Titles and First Lines (Russian) 546
90. Index of Poem Titles and First Lines (English) 551