Shelf: History of Russian Poetry

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