| Ivanov, Georgii Vladimirovich (1894 1958) | Lampada. Sobranie stikhotvorenii. Kniga pervaia. Petrograd, ['Mysl',] 1922. 123 p. | €200,00 |
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| 8 vo, original publishers covers preserve, skillfully restored at Atelier Tiemeyer, berlin.Clamshell case made from acid - free material. FIRST EDITION .Fifth collecton of poems by acmeist poet. 'Georgii Vladimirovich Ivánov was a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emigration between the 1930s and 1950s. As a banker's son, Ivanov spent his young manhood in the elite circle of Russian golden youth. He started writing pretentious verses, imitative of Baudelaire and the French Symbolists, at a precocious age. Although his technique of versification was impeccable, he had no life experience to draw upon. The favourite subjects of his early poetry were Rococo mannerisms and gallant festivals. Unsurprisingly, he named two of his books 'The Embarkment for Cythera', alluding to Watteau's great painting. Ivanov was also considered to be one of the best pupils of the informal Guild of Poets school organized by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky.Ivanov was the only prominent member of this circle who emigrated to the West.-WIKIPEDIA' See: Kasack, Wolfgang (1988); Tarasenkov, Rozanov,Ivan; Markov, Vladimir The bitter Air of Exile [...] (1977); The Border of Snow and Melt - Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov, translated, edited and annotated by Jerome Katsell and Stanislav Shvabrin (2011) |