Mandelstam had no teacher, marveled Anna Akhmatova, reflecting on his early maturity and singularity.
But Mandelstam himself spoke of the need and even duty to study a poet's literary roots.
So how did this consummately complex, compelling, multi-resonant poet navigate and exploit the burden of the Russian Symbolist movement from which he emerged? How did this process change and augment his poetry? Through a series of illuminating readings, Stuart Goldberg explores the .
Ohio State University Press Mandelstam, blok, and the boundaries of mythopoetic symbolism, paperback/stuart goldberg
