Anna Akhmatova

David Wells Librarian,Curtin University of Technology, Perth

'The book is aimed at the general reader as well as the student of Russian literature and achieves its goals with notable success.'Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2001'This volume extends our understanding of Akhmatova in a useful manner. ...this book would be of undoubted value to students of 20th century Russian poetry.'British East-West Journal'David N Wells has the command not just of the facts; he has an acute ear for poetry and considerable gifts as a prose writer. This critical guide manages to be comprehensive without being unreadably dense.'The Slavonic Review