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Poems of Sophia

By Boris Jakim , Alexander Blok

Book information

Publisher
Semantron Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1621380661, 9781621380665
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
644 kB (659549 bytes)
Pages
200\195
Time added
2018-01-01 20:14:43
Practices & Sacred Texts;Religion & SpiritualityRussian;Regional & Cultural;Poetry;Literature & Fi

Description

ALEXANDER BLOK (1880–1921) is the greatest Russian poet after Pushkin and perhaps the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language. This volume consists of translations of three collections of Blok’s verse: Ante Lucem (1898–1900), Verses about the Beautiful Lady (1901–1902), and Crossroads (1902–1904). These poems describe Blok’s visions of Sophia, the Beautiful Lady, who appeared to him at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Sophia is the mysterious feminine principle behind all creation; Blok calls her the Mysterious Maiden, the Empress of the Universe, the Eternal Bride, and he sees her in the blue sky and the sky full of stars as well as in the dawns and sunsets of Russia.

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