- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions
- Introduction: ‘Not Written by a Lady’
- 1 The ‘Feminine Pen’ and the Imagination of National Tradition: Russian Women's Writing, 1820–1880
- 2 Mariya Zhukova (1804–1855)
- 3 Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)
- 4 Elena Gan (1814–1842)
- 5 Configurations of Authority: Feminism, Modernism, and Mass Culture, 1881–1917
- 6 Olga Shapir (1850–1916)
- 7 Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)
- 8. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- 9 Class War and the Home Front: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (1917–1953)
- 10 Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
- 11 Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
- 12 Vera Bulich (1898–1954)
- 13 Who Wants to be a Man? De-Stalinizing Gender, 1954–1992
- 14 Natalya Baranskaya (1908– )
- 15 Elena Shvarts (1948– )
- 16 Olga Sedakova (1949– )
- 17 Nina Sadur (1950– )
- 17. Instead of an Afterword: Some Concluding Points
- Bibliography
- Index of Women Writers Cited
- General Index
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- Chapter:
- (p.207) 8. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- Source:
- A History of Russian Women's Writing 1820–1992
- Author(s):
Catriona Kelly
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the different poems of Anna Akhmatova, which are less complex in lexical, thematic, and metrical terms. Her poems are also more accessible than those of other Russian female poets, including the poems by Tsvetaeva. As a poet, Akhmatova was able to perpetuate the tradition of feminine poetry and applied different strategies such as self-realisation. As such, Akhmatova is currently known as the most outstanding poetessa in all of Russia.
Keywords: Anna Akhmatova, feminine poetry, self-realisation, poetessa, lexical, thematic, metrical
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions
- Introduction: ‘Not Written by a Lady’
- 1 The ‘Feminine Pen’ and the Imagination of National Tradition: Russian Women's Writing, 1820–1880
- 2 Mariya Zhukova (1804–1855)
- 3 Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893)
- 4 Elena Gan (1814–1842)
- 5 Configurations of Authority: Feminism, Modernism, and Mass Culture, 1881–1917
- 6 Olga Shapir (1850–1916)
- 7 Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952)
- 8. Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- 9 Class War and the Home Front: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (1917–1953)
- 10 Sofiya Parnok (1885–1933)
- 11 Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
- 12 Vera Bulich (1898–1954)
- 13 Who Wants to be a Man? De-Stalinizing Gender, 1954–1992
- 14 Natalya Baranskaya (1908– )
- 15 Elena Shvarts (1948– )
- 16 Olga Sedakova (1949– )
- 17 Nina Sadur (1950– )
- 17. Instead of an Afterword: Some Concluding Points
- Bibliography
- Index of Women Writers Cited
- General Index
