Thursday, 30 May 2019
quote [ Walt Whitmanâs influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia â particularly in the years surrounding the 1917 Revolution â was enormous. For the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth, Nina Murray looks at the translators through which Russians experienced his work, not only in a literary sense â through the efforts of Konstantin Balmont and Kornei Chukovsky â but also artistic, in the avant-garde printmaking of Vera Ermolaeva. ]
I'm going to get through Walt Whitman
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