Poems of Alexandr Blok
A COLLECTION OF POEMS
BY
ALEKSANDR
BLOK
(Born 1880, Died 1921)
(Translations from Russian)
Alexandr Blok, the greatest of the Russian Symbolists, progressed
from the ethereal purity of Verses about the Beautiful Lady (1904) to the
powerful expressiveness of his mature manner, fully developed by 1909. The wild
intoxication of a gipsy woman's love, the spiritual destiny of his native land,
and the agonizing limitations of the poet's art, are some of the main themes of
his greatest body of poetry, to be found in the third volume of his collected
verse (1907-16). His last masterpiece is The Twelve, a long poem which
expresses his short-lived enthusiasm for the Revolution.
From "The Heritage of Russian Verse," by Dimitri Obolensky
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