Russian Silver Age Poetry: Texts and Contexts - Cultural Syllabus

Russian Silver Age writers were full participants in European literary debates and movements. Today some of these poets are known around the world. This volume introduces Silver Age poetry with its cultural ferment, the manifestos and the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic debates, the occult references and sexual experimentation, and the emergence of women, Jews, gay and lesbian poets, and peasants as part of a brilliant and varied poetic environment.