 Music
In Russian Poetry by Paul Friedrich
This groundbreaking
work from Paul Friedrich surveys the Russian lyric scene from
the eighteenth century through the modern period, in terms of
the poets' own ideas as well as the author's creative interpretation.
Such themes as poetic craft, musicality, creativity, sociopolitical
context, and multilingualism as musical competence are discussed,
interrelated through their variations in twenty-one of Russia's
finest lyric poets, and then synthesized in two "recapitulations."
Incorporating a broad theoretical perspective with numerous detailed
readings of key poems, Friedrich synthesizes recent Russian research
(in some cases new even to specialists) with Western criticism
to advance a unique series of hypotheses and generalizations.
Music in Russian Poetry will be an indispensable tool for students
of Russian lyric poetry, and will also be of great interest to
all those interested in comparative, structural, and (auto)biographical
approaches to lyric poetry and poetic culture.
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