Brown C. Mandelstam

London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0 521 20142 X.This is the first more or less full-fledged study of Osip Mandel’stam, now widely recognized as one of the best and most original Russian poets of the present century. It is significant that it has appeared abroad and in a foreign language. By the time of its publication, there was no edition of Mandel’stam’s collected poetry in the Soviet Union, the last small book of verse having appeared in 1928. Since then, a long-expected and several times announced one-volume edition was at last published in December 1973.List of illustrations
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Preliminary
The most abstract and intentional city
Studies abroad and at home
Beginnings
Snapshots from the Revolution and Civil War
From the insane ship to hunchbacked Tiflis
The wing of approaching night
1925–1938: Silence, prose, arrest, exile, sickness, death
The romance of the precise
Stone
Mandelstam’s books of poems
Seashell
Silence
Patterns, visual and kinetic
Theater of interrupted words
Down from the tower
Animated temples
That has such people in’t
Phaedra
Three poems of Tristia
Transparent sadness: the classical in Tristia
Here writes Terror: Poems, 1921–1925
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Index of names