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- Title
A Mirror or a Lamp?
- Authors
Zagajewski, Adam
- Abstract
An entire current of Russian poetry, the Acmeist school, had been destroyed physically and politically in the thirties. In the fifties and sixties, one could hear in Western Europe many theorists asserting that poetry was dead. On the other hand, Russian poet Joseph Brodsky asserted that poetry is a Phoenix that can be reborn out of ashes. The difference between Brodsky and the others is cultural and can be explained both by the distinct poetic traditions in Russia and Poland and by disparate political context. In this regard, the author relates poetry and general arts with the mirror and the lamp.
- Subjects
20TH century Russian poetry; EAST European poetry; POETRY (Literary form); BRODSKY, Joseph, 1940-1996; POETS; RUSSIAN literature
- Publication
Hedgehog Review, 2004, Vol 6, Issue 2, p15
- ISSN
1527-9677
- Publication type
Essay