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  • On the question of isolation and in lieu of answers to my survey questions, one writer simply pointed to Osip Mandelshtam and Ovid.

    Causing a Scene – Brenda Schmidt 2007

  • Again, I recall the famous words of Russian poet Mandelshtam. '

    Hillary Takes Three Out of Four, McCain Comes to End of Primary Trail 2008

  • I'm not familiar with his writings, but I do love Mandelshtam very much.

    Perfume Review: Jean Patou Divine Folie Marina Geigert 2008

  • It turns out Södergran was one of the first modernist poets in Scandinavia, one of the Swedish minority in Finland... and she was born in Saint Petersburg in 1892, a year after Mandelshtam!

    languagehat.com: EDITH SÖDERGRAN. 2005

  • There's surprisingly little on her in Russian, considering that she was born and spent most of her life in what was then Russia and could rightly be considered part of the generation of Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, and Tsvetaeva, but here's a nice page with pictures of her, her gravestone in Roshchino, and a sculpture of her favorite cat Totti.

    languagehat.com: EDITH SÖDERGRAN. 2005

  • Incidentally, anyone interested in Mandelshtam should read Gasparov's fascinating essay on the Slate Ode what I've linked is the English summary, which is itself quite long; the Russian original is here.

    languagehat.com: HEAD OF A TRAVELLER. 2004

  • Men of genius like Meyerhold the producer and Mandelshtam the poet, and of talent like Babel, Pilnyak, Yashvili, Tabidze, the then recently returned London émigré Prince D.S. Mirsky, the critic Averbakh (to take the best-known names alone) were "repressed," that is, killed or done away with in one way or another.

    The Arts in Russia Under Stalin Berlin, Isaiah 2000

  • The spectra of multicharged ions CaXVI, FeXXIII, K XIX and others have also been observed (together with O.N. Krokhin, S.L. Mandelshtam, G.V. Sklizkov).

    Nicolay G. Basov - Biography 1972

  • Here is a literal translation of a great poem by Mandelshtam (note the correct form of his name), which appears in the original Russian on pp. 142 and 144 of Olga Carlisle's anthology, Poets on Street Corners (Random House, New York, 1968).

    On Adaptation Nabokov, Vladimir 1969

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