Looking for Akhmatova
Morning Pages | 23 June 2024
The poem is an excerpt from Requiem
My essay
'Akhmatova is a very minor poet precisely because she is an excessively personal, and therefore, limited poet.' Is this (Soviet) judgement a fair one?
I remember sitting in the reading room in Albany Park in St Andrews over a weekend to write this essay. Literature essays were generally due on Fridays, so I probably blagged an extension until Monday. It's interesting that I didn't write a date on it—interesting and annoying.