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Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich |
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Mandelstam, Osip Emilyevich (ô`sĭp ĕmyēl`yəvĭch män`dĭlstəm), 1892–1938, Russian poet. Mandelstam was a leader of the Acmeist Acmeists (ăk`mēĭsts), school of Russian poets started in 1912 by Sergei M. ..... Click the link for more information. school. He wrote impersonal, fatalistic, meticulously constructed poems, the best of which are collected in Kamen [stone] (1913) and Tristia (1922). Although he opposed the Bolsheviks, he remained in Russia after the revolution but published no poetry after 1925. He was arrested in 1934 and died in a concentration camp. His widow preserved a large number of poems from the early period of his exile. BibliographySee his complete works, tr. by B. Raffel and A. Burago (1973); memoirs by N. Mandelstam (2 vol., 1970 and 1974); study by C. Brown (1973). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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