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Ivanov of Bakhtin's plan to include seven of his poems in a selection of lyrics he was preparing under the title ‘Vtoraya volna simvolizma’ (The Second Wave of Symbolism). He noted that one of Ivanov’s poems had to be cited from memory, as his books were very scarce in England; in response Ivanov sent him a note and a signed copy of his poem to forward to Bakhtin. 10 In the same letter Konovalov also sent Ivanov an encouraging report on Bowra's role in facilitating the publication of his poems in Russian: Я имею твердую поддержку Оксф. Professor of Poetry – Dr. C.M. Bowra, Warden of Wadham College, classical scholar. Его последние книги (к сожалению здесь их не достать) ‘The Heritage of Symbolism’ (Valéry, Rilke, St. Georg, A. Blok, Yeats), 1944 и ‘Book of Russian Verse’ (антология 30 поэтов в переводах). Bowra мне сказал, что мы можем рассчитывать на субсидию (которую он берется собрать по подписке – и во всяком случае сам подпишет и к. ниб. осилит это дело) – во всяком случае на одну книгу (м. б. удалось бы издать и две – сейчас невозможно определить расходы по печатанию). [I have the firm support of the Oxf. Professor of Poetry – Dr. C.M. Bowra, Warden of Wadham College, classical scholar. His latest books (unfortunately you can't get hold of them here) are ‘The Heritage of Symbolism’ (Valéry, Rilke, St. Georg, A. Blok, Yeats), 1944 and ‘Book of Russian Verse’ (an anthology of 30 poets in translations). Bowra told me that we can count on a subsidy (which he undertakes to collect by subscription – and he will in any case underwrite it himself and somehow manage this task) – certainly for one book (it might even be possible to publish two – 9 Letter from Konovalov to Ivanov of 21 March 1946, RAI, opis’ 3, 111. 10 Letters from Konovalov to Ivanov of 18 May 1946, from Ivanov to Konovalov of 24 June 1946, and from Konovalov to Ivanov of 12 August 1946, RAI, opis’ 3, 111, 112. 62
ight now it’s impossible to determine the publishing costs).] 11 In a postscript Konovalov urged Ivanov to make direct contact with Bowra by sending him an offprint with an inscription. In this way he initiated their correspondence and laid the foundations of an enduring relationship and fruitful exchange of ideas. Ivanov’s distichs to Bowra Ivanov was quick to act on Konovalov's instructions and fulfilled them with characteristic flair and inspiration. He not only despatched to Bowra some offprints of his most interesting recent articles in German, published in the 1930s in Hochland and Corona, but also added a brilliant and original poetic address to Bowra, composed in Latin distichs. Although it has unfortunately not proven possible to locate the poem and the offprints among Bowra's papers in Wadham College, a draft and final version of the distichs survive in Ivanov’s Rome archive and the articles are identified in Ivanov's letter to Konovalov of 24 June 1946: Глубоко трогает меня участие проф. Bowra к моей музе и я бесконечно ему признателен; чтобы ознаменовать хоть чем-нибудь эту признательность, посылаю ему, как гуманисту, а к тому же и германисту и слависту, мои немецкие статьи: “Гуманизм и религия”, “Существо античной трагедии”, “Гоголь и Аристофан”, “Слово о полку Игореве” и мои немецкие переводы стихов Боратынского и Тютчева на смерть Гете (из Corona) с сопроводительными латинскими стишками. [I am deeply touched by the interest of Prof. Bowra in my muse and I am infinitely grateful to him; to mark my gratitude at least in some way, I am sending him, as a humanist as well as a Germanist and Slavist, my German articles: ‘Humanism and Religion’, ‘The Essence of Ancient Tragedy’, ‘Gogol' and Aristophanes’, ‘The Lay of 11 Letter from Konovalov to Ivanov of 18 May 1946, RAI, opis’ 3, 111. 63
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INTRODUCTION Vyacheslav Ivanov (186
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compatriotes non-initiés. 64 Vos t
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your book. 81 I have also written t
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His subsequent support for the publ
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Works by V.I. Ivanov 1 SELECT BIBLI
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Ivanov, Vyacheslav, Dionis i pradio
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Berlin and Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verl
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Bowra, C.M., Early Greek Elegists,
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London: Duckworth, 1974, 48-85. Aub
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Vena 1998, ed. Sergei Averintsev an
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Konovalov, S., ed., Vyacheslav I. I
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Atalan
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