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Poems About Poems: Notes on Recent Soviet Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Vera S. Dunham*
Affiliation:
Wayne State University

Extract

In view of the extraordinary popularity of many poets in Russia today, the sense of failure expressed by one of them seems surprising:

Boris Slutsky's malaise is not unjustified.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1965

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3 V. Druzin has, not entirely erroneously, reduced Evtushenko's whole philosophy to Igor Severianin's “V derevne khochetsia stolitsy, v stolitse khochetsia glushi” (, No. 5, 1961, p. 183).

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46 After finishing this paper, I read Richard Pipes’ “Russia's Exigent Intellectuals,” in Encounter, January 1964. My paper might serve as a footnote to Mr. Pipes’ argument.

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