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Many other colleagues and co-discoverers have helped this book along its way. I had three readers: Donald Fanger, Stanislaw Baranczak, and especially Jurij Striedter, whose reading of my work-scrupulous, generous, and inspiring-was my best graduate education and my book and I have both benefited from their continued interest in my research on Mandelstam. As a graduate student, I was more fortunate. A poet finds his true reader only in posterity, Mandelstam laments. THE CREATION of tradition is, Mandelstam insists, a collaborative endeavor, the work of “colleagues” and “co-discoverers.” A book is no less a collaboration, and for whatever merits this study may possess I am indebted to many-although its faults are entirely my own. Self-Creation and the Creation of CultureĬhaplinesque, or Villon Again: In Place of an Ending Introduction: The Modernist Creation of Tradition Seamus HeaneyĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS, TRANSLATIONS, AND TRANSLITERATION I feel my palm On a forehead cold as permafrost And imagine axle-hum and the steadfast Russian of Osip Mandelstam. THE ARTICULATION OF SIBERIA When the deaf phonetician spread his hand Over the dome of a speaker’s skull He could tell which diphthong and which vowel By the bone vibrating to the sound. This book has been composed in Galliard Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources Printed in the United States of America 1 Mandel’shtam, Osip, 1891–1938-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Osip Mandelstam and the modernist creation of tradition / Clare Cavanagh. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cavanagh, Clare. Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition Ĭopyright  1995 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved

Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition