Reviews for The poetry of the period

The average rating for The poetry of the period based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-10 00:00:00 Shanti Davis Thank you, Ashton Nichols. This book traces the development of epiphany from Rousseau through Wordsworth and Joyce and then up through modern and contemporary writers as well. It is full of useful footnotes and references for those who want to pursue the study further. A very useful resource.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-12 00:00:00 Stu Rohrer Ratushinskaya is an easy person to like. However, her memoir is disappointing for a lot of reasons. First, I'm not sure her experiences, although they were frightening and a little surreal, warrant such a long and detailed memoir. Her work camp experience as a political prisoner for a few years in Russia (for writing poetry) just isn't that remarkable -- far more people have endured worse and wrote about it more movingly. And the detailed history of her childhood and teen years should have been kept at the private-diary-level only. Some of the blame lies with her translator, who did a poor job with the dialogue -- making it all sound stilted and bizarre. With lots! of! exclamation! points! A better translator might have been extremely helpful to the author. Having said all that, Ratushinskaya is a charming, warm woman who shared the story of her life growing up in the Communist cities of Odessa and Kiev with a sweet openness. And I did finish it, after all, which says something.