Shelf: History of Russian Poetry

This edition includes articles written by the authors of the "Shelf" project for the extensive course "History of Russian Poetry," which covers the period from Ancient Russia to the present day. Alina Bodrova, Alexander Dolinin, Dina Magomedova, Lev Oborin, and Valery Shubinsky discuss the origin and development of Russian poetry: how did Old Russian poetry become Russian? Where did Romanticism come from? What did Lomonosov, Pushkin, Nekrasov, Blok, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Brodsky, and Prigov achieve? What accounts for the poetic explosion of the Silver Age? How did official and unofficial poetry coexist in Soviet times? What was happening in Russian poetry during the post-Soviet decades?