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Dear Professor Ivanov, 8 Bowra – Ivanov 3 October 1947 54 110 October 3rd 55 I cannot settle down to my usual routine here without sending you a word of gratitude for the charmingly human welcome which you gave me in Rome. It was more than delightful to see you and to feel at perfect and happy ease with you, to talk of the things that most matter and to find you so approachable and hospitable. Thank you too for the fine bottle of wine which your son brought to me and which I am treasuring for some special occasion. 56 I am sending you herewith two books of mine which I think you have not got. 57 Both were written in the war and may show signs of it, but I hope will interest you. 58 progress. 59 When Berlin returns here with your poems, we will get to work at once and report 54 RAI, Bowra folder. Typescript, one sheet, on printed stationery of The Warden, Wadham College, Oxford; no envelope. 55 The year ‘1947’ has been added by Ivanov in pencil. 56 Ivanov’s son, Dimitrii Ivanov (1912-2003), was aged thirty-five at the time of Bowra’s visit; he worked as a teacher and also as a journalist under the pseudonym of Jean Neuvecelle. 57 During his visit to Rome Bowra must have noticed that Ivanov did not have copies of his two works most closely connected with the poet: A Book of Russian Verse (including his translations of three poems by Ivanov) and The Heritage of Symbolism (including a chapter on Blok). Both books, first published in 1943, had recently been reprinted in 1947. On his return to Oxford, Bowra sent Ivanov inscribed copies of these new editions, now located in Ivanov’s library in Rome. For details of the inscriptions, see the section on ‘True’ Symbolism in Chapter 4. For Ivanov’s response to both gifts, see letter 9. In a letter of 8 December 1947 to Konovalov Ivanov describes the two books sent to him by Bowra (RAI, opis’ 3, 112). 58 Bowra’s letter contains an uncorrected error; by mistake he typed ‘but I hope you will interest you.’ 59 Berlin transported the manuscript of Svet Vechernii from Rome to Oxford. He was charged with this task as he stayed on in Italy for longer than Bowra and could therefore wait until the manuscript was ready. Olga Bickley, a lecturer in Italian from Oxford and close friend of Konovalov, had previously written to Ivanov from Genoa, suggesting that she could convey the manuscript back to Oxford, but this plan was dropped when Bowra and Berlin announced their intention to visit Ivanov in Rome; see Ivanov’s letter of 8 December 1947 to Konovalov (RAI,
With all good wishes to your family and yourself, yours sincerely C.M. Bowra opis’ 3, 112). When the manuscript of Svet Vechernii arrived in Oxford, work continued on plans for its publication, eventually brought to fruition in 1962. Before the book was ready, Konovalov also published some poems from it in Oxford Slavonic Papers, the journal that he founded in 1950 and edited until 1967; see ‘Forty-one Sonnets by Vyacheslav Ivanov’, with an introduction by O. Deschartes, Oxford Slavonic Papers, 5, 1954, 56-80, and ‘Poems’, Oxford Slavonic Papers, 7, 1957, 64-82. 111
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Transcription and Transliteration I
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INTRODUCTION Vyacheslav Ivanov (186
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classical tradition of humanism to
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tradition’. 1 Although Ivanov beg
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he overlooked them because of his h
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‘zhiznetvorchestvo’ (creation o
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(Transparency, 1904), Eros (1907),
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humanism; as we shall see below, th
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his transformation of the Russian l
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The publication of these letters in
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edition then formed the basis of th
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Жил Диониса новый с
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CHAPTER TWO Bowra as a Classical Sc
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company of a Russian friend's siste
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who initiated him into the art of t
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made possible his election to the O
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the United States, that he discusse
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intuitions, was able to recognize i
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Moscow during the war years. 2 The
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(tiny little corner): 'это то
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of the existing anthologies of Russ
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(unchanged) in 1947 and then follow
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Pindar or Alcaeus.’ 21 In his bri
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Уединенная душа. 26 A
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К закатным пристан
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succeeds in conveying the power and
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