Curated category
Poetry movements
- Silver Age of Russian PoetryPhilosopher Nikolai Berdyaev first suggested the term Silver Age to describe a specific period in Russian literary history.
- Golden Age of Russian PoetryPeter Pletnev spoke the words Golden Age of Russian Literature in 1824. He was a critic who looked at the first half of that century and saw something new.
- Performance poetryOn the 23rd of June 1916, Hugo Ball stood at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. He wore a cardboard costume that forced him to be carried onto the stage.
- Spoken wordBefore the invention of writing, a cycle of practicing, listening and memorizing shaped how each language drew on its resources of sound structure.