Poetry
Психея. Романтика
Not translated into English
Marina Tsvetaeva · 1923
Synopsis
The collection brings together cycles written from 1916 to 1921: verses addressed to the author's daughter, a sequence on insomnia, another on the Muse, pieces of soft light and religious inspiration. The subtitle, “Romantic”, already indicates the fundamental tendency of the book, which émigré criticism linked to an authentic romanticism. The volume also includes some twenty poems written by the author's daughter when she was seven years old.
Context
The collection was published in Berlin in 1923 by the publisher Z. I. Grjebine, under the title “Психея. Романтика”. The critic Alexander Bakhrakh reviewed it in the Berlin newspaper Dni on 24 June 1923: he saw in this poetry an incessant volcanism, foreign to the serene work of the laboratory, and a singular flower of an unaffected romanticism, despite orientations apparently turned towards the past.
Who it is for
Short cycles that can be read separately; no French or English translation of the collection.
Prizes and reception
Reviewed as soon as it appeared in the Russian press of Berlin, which saw in it the mark of a singular romanticism.
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