Russian Poets

Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse.

This volume gathers together some of the best-loved and most powerful poems from the greatest Russian poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Here is the work of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ivan Bunin, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, and many others.

Arranged by theme — love, mortality, art, and our enduring mysterious relationship with Mother Russia herself — and presented in the best available translations, these poems will serve as both an introduction to the mastery of Russian poetry and a wide-ranging selection to be returned to again and again.