Volume 25, Number 3 · March 9, 1978
Mandelstam Whole
By Henry Gifford
Osip Mandelstam: Selected Essays
translated by Sidney Monas
University of Texas Press, 245 pp., $15.95
Mandelstam: The Later Poetry
by Jennifer Baines
Cambridge University Press, 253 pp., $18.95
Mandelstam is now generally acknowledged as one of the greatest Russian poets in an age when Russian poetry was very fine. Some would even place him as the greatest among his contemporaries. Without a doubt he is the best critic of Russian poetry to appear in modern times. It is therefore a most welcome thing that we should have the critical writings, almost in their totality, translated with grace and accuracy by Sidney Monas.
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