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  Encyclopedia: Aleksandr Blok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Blok was born on Nov. 16th, 1880 in St Petersburg into a highly polished and intellectual family.
After the parents' separation, Blok lived with his aristocratic relatives at the Shakhmatovo manor near Moscow, where he discovered the philosophy of his uncle Vladimir Solovyov, and the verse of then little-known 19th-century poets, Fyodor Tyutchev and Afanasy Fet.
In the 1910s, Blok was universally admired by literary colleagues, and his influence on younger poets was paramount.
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 Aleksandr Blok
Blok's poetry, produced by "the fever of the heart, the cold of mind", was praised for his musical flow of words, dream-like spontaneity, in which sound and repetition were used to evoke mood.
His father, A.L. Blok, was a scholar and professor of law at Warsaw University, his mother, Aleksandra Beketova, was a translator and the daughter of the rector of the University of St. Petersburg.
Blok was considered a true poet, a visionary, although his prophecy of the approaching destruction was rejected.
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 AllRefer.com - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biographies
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok[ulyiksAn´dur ulyiksAn´druvich blOk] Pronunciation Key, 1880–1921, Russian poet, considered the greatest of the Russian symbolists.
This work celebrates the passion, violence, and exhilaration of the revolution, with which Blok later became disenchanted.
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 Aleksandr Blok --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Poet and dramatist Aleksandr Blok was the principal representative of Russian symbolism.
Blok is believed to have initiated the post-Revolutionary era of Russian literature.
The poet and novelist Andrei Bely was a leading theorist and poet of Russian symbolism, a literary school deriving from the modernist movement in Western European art and literature and indigenous Eastern Orthodox spirituality.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9344654   (623 words)

  
 Poet: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok - All poems of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Poet: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok - All poems of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
A.A.Blok, who lived from 1880-1921, was known for his symbolistic Russian poetry.In the example above, Blok used the symbol of music to represent the voice of the Russian Revolution.
Author Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, from the Oldpoetry Poetry...
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