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MANDEL'SHTAM, Osip Emil'evich (1891-1938). Vtoraia kniga. [Second Book.] Moscow, St Petersburg: Krug, 1923 [November 1922].
The important first revised edition: the author's preferred version of his second collection of poetry. Mandelsh'tam was very unhappy with the Berlin edition of his second book, published as Tristia earlier in 1922; he gave copies of that edition to friends remarking that it had been put together by ungrammatical people without his knowledge and against his will (Martin). For this edition, Mandel'shtam completely rearranged the sequence, added fourteen new poems and deleted sixteen others. The sequencing is especially important, because Mandel'shtam wrote interlinked poems in a chronological sequence; his wife remarked that his poems 'came in groups, or in a single flow, until the initial impulse was spent' (Martin). Briusov reviewed Vtoraia kniga as insufficiently Marxist or modern, which precipitated Mandel'shtam's fall from grace: soon after, his name was removed from all lists of authors permitted to contribute to literary periodicals. Kilgour 698; Martin, 'Collecting Mandelshtam', in Caxtonian, vol. XIV, no.11, p.7.
Octavo (135 x 105mm). (Small stains in the margins of the first leaves, occasional light soiling.) Original white printed wrappers (spotting; some wear, including tears to the rear cover).
The important first revised edition: the author's preferred version of his second collection of poetry. Mandelsh'tam was very unhappy with the Berlin edition of his second book, published as Tristia earlier in 1922; he gave copies of that edition to friends remarking that it had been put together by ungrammatical people without his knowledge and against his will (Martin). For this edition, Mandel'shtam completely rearranged the sequence, added fourteen new poems and deleted sixteen others. The sequencing is especially important, because Mandel'shtam wrote interlinked poems in a chronological sequence; his wife remarked that his poems 'came in groups, or in a single flow, until the initial impulse was spent' (Martin). Briusov reviewed Vtoraia kniga as insufficiently Marxist or modern, which precipitated Mandel'shtam's fall from grace: soon after, his name was removed from all lists of authors permitted to contribute to literary periodicals. Kilgour 698; Martin, 'Collecting Mandelshtam', in Caxtonian, vol. XIV, no.11, p.7.
Octavo (135 x 105mm). (Small stains in the margins of the first leaves, occasional light soiling.) Original white printed wrappers (spotting; some wear, including tears to the rear cover).
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