Tsvetaeva's Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word

Olga Peters Hasty is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Pushkin's Tatiana and How Women Must Write.

“Olga Peters Hasty clarifies as never before the substance of Tsvetaeva’s romanticism—a philosophical concern with poetry as a bridge to a higher realm of experience, and a typological style of thinking inspired by folklore and myth. The book thus renders a double service to Tsvetaeva scholarship, both illuminating Tsvetaeva’s creative philosophy and helping to define her place in the romantic tradition . . . Hasty has traced the logic of Tsvetaeva’s thinking with impressive nuance and clarity.” —Catherine Ciepiela, Slavic Review"Olga Peters Hasty's recent book is a rare treat: articulate, learned, and sensitive . . . Hasty's admirable talent—obviously informed by a keen poetic ear and a penetrating knowledge of the Russian language—for uncovering unexpected paranomastic echoes and shimmering linguistic ambiguities in her close readings of Tsvetaeva's poetry is [an] indubitable merit of her work." —Alyssa W. Dinega, The Slavic and East European Journal