Author(s): D. S. Mirsky
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 1926
Language: English
Pages: xv+372
City: New York
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
1. The End of a Great Age
2. Tolstoy after 1880
3. Leskov
4. Poetry: Sluchevsky
5. The Leaders of the Intelligentsia: Mikhaylovsky
6. The Conservatives
7. Constantine Leontiev
CHAPTER II
1. The Eighties and Early Nineties
2. Garshin
3. Minor Novelists
4. The Emigrés
5. Korolenko
6. The Literary Lawyers
7. Poets
8. Vladimir Soloviev
9. Chekhov
INTERCHAPTER I. THE FIRST REVOLUTION (1905)
CHAPTER III
1. Prose Fiction after Chekhov
2. Gorky
3. The Znanie School of Fiction
4. Kùprin
5. Bunin
6. Andreev
7. Artsybashev
8. Sergeyev-Tsensky
9. Minor Novelists
10. Outside the Literary Groups
11. Feuilletonists and Humorists
CHAPTER IV
1. The New Movements of the Nineties
2. The Æsthetic Revival: Benois
3. Merezhkovsky
4. Rozanov
5. Shestov
6. Other “Religious Philosophers”
7. The Landmarks and After
CHAPTER V
1. The Symbolists
2. Balmont
3. Bryusov
4. Metaphysical Poets: Zinaida Hippius
5. Sologub
6. Annensky
7. Vyacheslav Ivanov
8. Voloshin
9. Blok
10. Bely
11. Minor Symbolists
12. “Stylizators”: Kuzmin
13. Khodasevich
INTERCHAPTER II. THE SECOND REVOLUTION (1917)
CHAPTER VI. POETRY AFTER 1910
1. GumileV and the Poets’ Guild
2. Anna Akhmatova
3. Mandelstam
4. The Vulgarizers
5. Feminine Poetry: Marina Tsvetaeva
6. “Peasants Poets” and Imaginists: Esenin
7. The Rise of Futurism
8. Mayakovsky
9. Other Lef Poets
10. Pasternak
11. The Proletarian Poets
12. The Younger Poets of Petersburg and of Moscow
CHAPTER VII. THE New PROSE
1. Remizov
2. A. N. Tolstoy
3. Prishvin
4. Zamyatin
5. Memoirs and Historical Novels
6. Shklovsky and Erenburg
7. The Revival of Fiction after 1921
PARALIPOMENA
1. The Drama
2. Literary Criticism
BIBLIOGRAPHY
