Books in the Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature series

Dew on the Grass

Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons

This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke's role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the specifically Russian poetic paradigm