Tuesday, February 06, 2007

News at Eleven: If there had been no revolution,

[Anna] Akhmatova could have made her seductive nature her subject, in the manner of Edna St. Vincent Millay but to even greater effect. History denied her the opportunity to sublimate her frailties. It made her a heroine instead.

from Slate: Anna Akhmatova

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