Boris Anrep and the Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Rosslyn, Wendy

doi:10.2307/3728235

The Modern Language Review

1979

DOI: 10.2307/3728235

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Boris Anrep and the Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Wendy Rosslyn¹

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“…Anrep's literary immortality in Russia was ensured by Anna Akhmatova, who dedicated some three dozen poems to him, among which are several undisputed masterpieces. Anrep in his role as inspirer of Akhmatova's muse has been the subject of both memoirs and scholarly articles (Rosslyn, 1979;. He also received in his own right particular attention from Aldous Huxley, who in addition to mentioning him in his diaries and memoirs, seems to have based on him the character of the artist Gombauld in his satirical novel Crome Yellow.…”

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Boris Anrep

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2005

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British awareness of Russia and of its cultural heritage was greatly increased in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the next. Many of the leading lights in English literary and artistic circles register in their correspondence and diaries and, indeed, at times also in their creative work their encounters with Russian culture and with many of its contemporary exponents who visited England during these years. This article is devoted to the impact made by the artist Boris Anrep, famed above all for his mosaics in the National Gallery. The first part of the study charts Anrep’s biography in some detail and the impact he made on the Bloomsbury and Garsington sets in particular. The second part examines the relationship between Anrep and the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and the corpus of poems inspired by Anrep. In the extensive final section, the real-life encounters between Anrep and Aldous Huxley at Garsington form a prelude to a detailed analysis of Huxley’s first novel Crome Yellow, in which Anrep provided the prototype for the painter Gombauld.

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Blake's Russian literary heir: Based on unpublished poems by Boris Anrep

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The article deals with unpublished poems by Russian poet and artist Boris Anrep, which are studied in the context of developing the traditions of English romantic epical poems. The research of these poems as evidence of creative dialogue between Anrep and the prophetic poetry of William Blake is proposed. The research considers the epics “Vladimir”, “Creation of the world” and “Creation of man” written by Anrep in the 1900s, before he emigrated from Russia, and are kept in the archive of N. Nedobrovo (Personal collection of the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The methods of comparative literature studies and those of analysis, synthesis and generalization are used. The idea is substantiated that Anrep, already in his early poetic work, inherits in many respects the poetics and themes of William Blake's prophetic books, which he knew in childhood. The author identifies the commonality in the figurative system of poems Anrep and Blake: the characters are elements, giants, generalized natural phenomena. The gravitation of Anrep to a combination of physiology and philosophy, synthesis of author's inference and mimetic descriptions also testifies to influence of romantic lyre-epics. It is concluded that the early poems of Boris Anrep, as well as his later works (“The Man”, “Fiza”, “Foreword To The Book Of Anrep”), are in many ways an attempt to embody in Russian the principles of English romantic poetry, primarily the prophecies of William Blake. The reception of these poems in the work of the artist Dmitry Stelletsky has been studied. It has been proved that such an example of the reception of English romanticism in general is typical for the culture of the Silver Age, which rediscovered European early romanticism (Poe, Novalis, Hölderlin) and felt it as modern art.

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