Describing a "Kremlin Mountaineer" who "toys with the tributes of half-men," for 10 points name this Russian Acmeist poet of the "Stalin Epigram."
One of this person's poems contrasts the image of the "brute strength of Egypt" with a "meek Christian." That poem, "Notre Dame" appears in a collection in which the title poem begins, "The essence of farewell I have extracted/From hatless laments of the sleepless night." In one work the narrator notes as his world starts to crumble "Everything melts, even Goethe melts," in this author's semi-autobiographical The Egyptian Stamp. He quips "I compare, therefore I am in his critical essay, "Conversations about Dante." He admits he is not a "straightforward stoneworker," in his "Slate Ode," and the memoirs Hope and Hope Abandoned were written by his wife Nadezhda. Describing a "Kremlin Mountaineer" who "toys with the tributes of half-men," for 10 points name this Russian Acmeist poet of the "Stalin Epigram."
One of this person's poems contrasts the image of the "brute strength of Egypt" with a "meek Christian.
Osip Mandelstam