Anna Akhmatova

Praise for Selected Poems

A genius of Russian poetry

Sunday Times

Once, when young, she had written the lines which lovers quoted to one another. Later she provided words which thousands of men and women repeated under their breath, as they suffered, feared and waited.

Observer

The greatest Russian poetess of the twentieth century

Joseph Brodsky

A genius of Russian poetry

Sunday Times

Once, when young, she had written the lines which lovers quoted to one another. Later she provided words which thousands of men and women repeated under their breath, as they suffered, feared and waited.

Observer

The greatest Russian poetess of the twentieth century

Joseph Brodsky

A genius of Russian poetry

Sunday Times

Once, when young, she had written the lines which lovers quoted to one another. Later she provided words which thousands of men and women repeated under their breath, as they suffered, feared and waited.

Observer

The greatest Russian poetess of the twentieth century

Joseph Brodsky

Books by Anna Akhmatova