Products tagged with Poetry

In this book of illustrated essays, Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.

The Fire Horse brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia’s most celebrated poets teamed up with some of its finest artists.

A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.
"Like the Auden who was, no less than Lowell, his champion, Brodsky is a master of traditional forms." - The New York Times Book Review

Osip Mandelstam is a central figure in both Russian and world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the 20th century.

A poem by Alexander Solzhenitsyn from 1950. 

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history.