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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Бло́к, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈblok] ⓘ; 28 November [ O.S. 16 November] 1880 – 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet, writer, publicist, playwright, translator and literary critic.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok was a poet and dramatist, the principal representative of Russian Symbolism, a modernist literary movement that was influenced by its European counterpart but was strongly imbued with indigenous Eastern Orthodox religious and mystical elements.
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Learn about the life and poetry of Alexandr Blok, a Russian Symbolist poet and playwright who supported the Russian Revolution and wrote The Twelve. Explore his collections of verses, his role in the Communist Party, and his legacy.
Learn about the life and works of Alexander Blok, a Symbolist poet who wrote about the 1917 revolution and the mysterious "Stranger". Discover how he died disillusioned by the new order and why his poetry is still debated today.
- I have a premonition of You. The years go by’ A refined lyric poet and Romantic, Blok wrote a large cycle of poems titled ‘Verses about the Beautiful Lady’.
- The night, a street, a lamp, a pharmacy’ This short poem, written in 1912, can be cited in full. Very many people in Russia know it by heart. “The night, a street, a lamp, a pharmacy,
- Russia’ Almost every Russian high school pupil has written an essay on ‘The image of the Motherland in Blok’s verse’. The poet did, in fact, write and think a very great deal about Russia.
- The Scythians’ “You are millions. We are hordes and hordes and hordes. Just try to pick a fight with us! Yes, we are Scythians! Yes, we are Asiatics,
In music, Blok inspired Arthur Lourie’s choral cantata Dans le temple du rêve d’or (In the Sanctuary of Golden Dreams, 1919), Shostakovich’s lyric song cycle for soprano and piano trio, Seven Romances of Aleksandr Blok (1967), and Sergei Slonimskii’s cantata A Voice from the Chorus (1963–1976); in art one might immediately think of ...
Selected works of the Russian poet Alexander Blok - chosen mainly to represent his personal and intimate poetry from 1908 onwards. The selection therefore shows only one facet of his work, often revealing its closeness to the deeply-felt but ironic personal style of Heine.
