Poems of the Silver Age

This is a collection of key poems from the Silver Age — texts in which one can hear how the era and the poets themselves changed. For Blok and White — a city that crushes and entices; for Akhmatova — pain and clarity, spoken almost in a whisper; for Tsvetaeva — nerve, break, and honesty without protection; for Yesenin — an attempt to hold onto what is one’s own as everything falls apart; for Mayakovsky — a powerful, direct voice that can no longer be hidden.

All these poems are different in tone and style, but together they show how literature seeks support when the world around is being rebuilt.