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.
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