Particularly interested in poetics—the theory of poetry—Gumilev was instrumental in starting Acmeism, a new literary movement. Critics generally regard this volume as insignificant. Nikolai Gumilev during his senior years in gymnasium Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev (Russian: Николай Степанович Гумилёв, April 15 NS 1886 – August 1921) was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement. As a student he met Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, who would become a famous poet under the name of Anna Akhmatova, and who he married in 1910. The item The pillar of fire and selected poems, Nikolay Gumilyov ; translated by Richard McKane ; introduction and notes by Michael Basker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Nevertheless, the Soviet regime was unable to prevent the posthumous publication of K sinyei Zvezde (“To a Blue Star,” 1923), the poetry collection that Earl Sampson described in Russian Literature Triquarterly as Gumilev’s “best and most significant work.” Unlike Ognennyi stolp and Shatyor, K sinyei zvezde harkens back to the more lyrical style of Gumilev’s earlier poems. Gumilev was an active participant in St. Petersburg’s literary life as a poet and critic. Writing about “Solntse dukha” (“The Sun of the Spirit”), Rusinko noted Gumilev’s “rhetorical exuberance” and his “patriotic fervor.” Marc Slonim described Kolchan in Modern Russian Literature: From Chekhov to the Present as one replete with “fierce combats, savage natives, and East African landscapes.” Slonim added, “In the forest and deserts of the Dark Continent [Gumilev] found not only proud fighters who die superbly ... but also a violence of colors, a power, and a spontaneous and magnificent outburst of the life instinct.”. After the appearance of K sinyei zvezde and the essay collection Pisma o russkoy poezii, no further volumes of his writings appeared in the Soviet Union for more than 60 years, although some of his works were featured in Soviet anthologies. Discerning a certain duality in Gumilev’s poetry, a duality which, in his view, characterizes the works of Akhmatova, Obolensky wrote that, in the poems written between 1918 and 1921, Gumilev “achieved remarkable emotional tenseness and visionary power—as in the ‘The Sixth Sense’ or the hauntingly suggestive ‘Tram that Lost Its Way.’”. Gumilev was born in 1886, in Kronstadt. An ensuing volume, Shatyor (“The Tent,” 1921), is likewise caustic in its considerations of the revolution. His poems were banned and were not published in Russia until the late 1980s. Nevertheless, as critics have written, Gumilev continued to revel in the exoticism characteristic of his early poetry. The merciless fire devoured. Gumilev founded the “Guild of Poets,” and in 1912, with fellow poet Sergey Gorodetsky, invented the term “acmeism,” based on the Greek word akme, meaning “pinnacle,” to denote a new orientation in poetry. / Your hands are especially slim / while embracing your knees. Much of his early verse was inspired by his travel in Africa and is marked by a liking for the exotic and a cult of heroism and adventure. One Hundred Poems In 1900, the Gumilev family moved to the city of Tiflis in the Caucases in order to improve the children's health. As a student he met Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, who would become a famous poet under the name of, Gumilev was an active participant in St. Petersburg’s literary life as a poet and critic. Among Gumilev’s other publications is Kostyor (“The Bonfire,” 1918), another volume in which he demonstrated his affinity for the exotic. Nikolay Gumilev. Discerning a certain duality in Gumilev’s poetry, a duality which, in his view, characterizes the works of Akhmatova, Obolensky wrote that, in the poems written between 1918 and 1921, Gumilev “achieved remarkable emotional tenseness and visionary power—as in the ‘The Sixth Sense’ or the hauntingly suggestive ‘Tram that Lost Its Way.’” He ultimately fought in the front lines, where he distinguished himself as a soldier of remarkable courage. He found work as a lecturer, but he also continued to produce poetry collections. [1] He studied at the gymnasium of Tsarskoe Selo, where the Symbolist poet Innokenty Annensky was his teacher. Nikolay Gumilev. Early life and poems []. Unlike many of his colleagues, Gumilev was not a supporter of Bolshevik power in Russia. In the years after Gumilev’s death, his works and reputation fell into obscurity. Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev (Russian language: Никола́й Степа́нович Гумилёв, IPA:[nʲɪkɐˈlaj stʲɪˈpanəvʲɪt͡ɕ ɡʊmʲɪˈlʲɵf]( listen); April 15 NS 1886 – August 25, 1921) was an influential Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. During World War I, Gumilyov fought at the front as a volunteer and in 1917 served as the Provisional Government’s special commissar in Paris after the first Russian Revolution that year. Gumilev founded the “Guild of Poets,” and in 1912, with fellow poet Sergey Gorodetsky, invented the term “acmeism,” based on the Greek word, A reaction to a mystical approach to poetry—which provided many of Gumilev’s contemporaries an opportunity to address metaphysical and spiritual subjects—acmeism, with its focus on poetic technique, as well on procedures favoring clarity of expression, not only gained wide critical approval, but also exerted a significant influence on Russian poetry. 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