Acknowledgments
Introduction: Inscription and Modernity
1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription
2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine,
Baudelaire, and Poncy
3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok,
Kliuev, and Khlebnikov
4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe
Conclusion
Coda: In Descending Sizes
Notes
Works Cited and Consulted
Index
Examines the tradition of inscriptive lyric poetry and its transformation by Romantic and post-Romantic poets
John MacKay is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.
. . . MacKay's readings elucidate poems from roughly 1750 to 1945
and encompass major Western writers ranging from Wordsworth to
Elizabeth Bishop. Sensitive that 'the poem should sing its own
understanding, without the help of ventriloquists,' MacKay portrays
the critic's task as gesturing toward the performance of the poem
within a community. This poetic sampling notably exposes poems from
lesser-known Russians such as Nikolai Kliuev and Velimir
Khlebnikov, along with French worker-poet Charles Poncy. . . .
MacKay helps the reader see the writings of early-20th-century
Russian poets in a larger framework—that of the relationship
between poetry and community. . . . Recommended. Graduate students,
researchers, and scholars.
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