10 January 1934 (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Osip Mandelstam
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, 1930’s, Death or dying, Symbolism, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Soviet Union or Soviets
The Poem
The poem “10 January 1934” is about the distinguished Russian poet, novelist, and thinker Andrey Bely, one of the leading Symbolists in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Although Osip Mandelstam subscribed to a different poetic creed, he respected Bely’s poetry highly, and the two became close friends for a brief time in 1933. When Bely died soon thereafter, Mandelstam wrote a cycle of seven poems in honor of his friend and fellow poet; “10 January 1934” is the central poem of the cycle. Like so many of Mandelstam’s poems, it was published...
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