ANNA AKHMATOVA, the pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (1889-1966), was a Russian modernist poet and one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as "Requiem" (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece depicting the suffering of the common people under Soviet terror.  "Poem Without a Hero", her longest work, was composed between 1940 and 1962 but only published after her death.  This difficult and complex work, in which the life of St. Petersburg bohemia in pre-World War I years is "double-exposed" onto the tragedies and suffering of the post-1917 decades, is a powerful lyric summation of Akhmatova's philosophy and her own definitive statement on the meaning of her life and poetic achievement.

Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries.  The strong and clear leading female voice struck a new chord in Russian poetry.  Her writing can be said to fall into two periods: the early work (1912-25) and her later work (from around 1936 until her death), divided by a decade of reduced literary output.  Her work was harshly condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities for its "eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference", and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the events around her.  Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:

* Evening: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova (Kneller, 2013).  Translated by Andrey Kneller.

* Fifteen Poems of Anna Akhmatova (n.p., 2013).  Translated by Graeme Davis.

* Final Meeting (Kneller, 2011).  Translated by Andrey Kneller.

* Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems (Oberlin, 1989).  Translated by Lenore Mayhew and William McNaughton. -- PDF

* Rosary: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova (Kneller, 2013).  Translated by Andrey Kneller.

* Selected Poems (Penguin, 1969).  Translated by Richard McKane. -- PDF

* Selected Poems (Penguin, 1988).  Translated by D. M. Thomas. -- PDF

* White Flock: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova (Kneller, 2013).  Translated by Andrey Kneller.

* Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Yale UP, 2004).  Translated by Nancy K. Anderson. -- ePUB + PDF

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