Evening |
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Author:
| Akhmatova, Anna Andreevena |
Editor:
| Wison, Hannah |
ISBN: | 978-1-5119-8852-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2015 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $4.99 |
Book Description:
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'Evening' was Akhmatova's first publuciation and it brought her instant fame and success. In 1912, the Guild of Poets published her book of verse Evening (Vecher) - the first of five in nine years. The small edition of 500 copies quickly sold out and she received around a dozen positive notices in the literary press. She exercised a strong selectivity for the pieces - including only 35 of the 200 poems she had written by the end of 1911. (She noted that Song of the Last Meeting, dated...
More Description'Evening' was Akhmatova's first publuciation and it brought her instant fame and success. In 1912, the Guild of Poets published her book of verse Evening (Vecher) - the first of five in nine years. The small edition of 500 copies quickly sold out and she received around a dozen positive notices in the literary press. She exercised a strong selectivity for the pieces - including only 35 of the 200 poems she had written by the end of 1911. (She noted that Song of the Last Meeting, dated 29 September 1911, was her 200th poem). The book secured her reputation as a new and striking young writer, the poems 'Grey-eyed king', 'In the Forest', 'Over the Water' and 'I don't need my legs anymore' making her famous. She later wrote "These na#65533;ve poems by a frivolous girl for some reason were reprinted thirteen times [...] And they came out in sev-eral translations. The girl herself (as far as I recall) did not foresee such a fate for them and used to hide the issues of the journals in which they were first published under the sofa cushions".