Osip Mandelstam and T. S. Eliot between Tradition and Innovation:A Comparative Study

During the second decade of the twentieth century, the advent of Imagism led by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot in Anglo-American poetry coincided with the rise of Acmeism in Russia, led by Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova. Being a study that belongs to the field of comparative literature, it is a study of analogy that reveals the correspondences between Imagism and Acmeism as they manifest themselves in the works of Eliot and Mandelstam. In the total absence of cross cultural exchanges between the two movements at the time, the study attributes the analogies in their works to the use of the same sources, for innovation, in the European cultural heritage as well as to the socio-political factors surrounding the comparison of their works.